Meta confirms smart glasses were recording without being activated
THE SO WHAT
Unintended audio recording on smart glasses is exactly the kind of failure that hardens regulators and landlords against ambient devices. If you ship anything with a mic and a battery, assume default suspicion—build auditable privacy controls and incident playbooks before your first at-scale deployment.
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