Meta Ray-Ban glasses brick the camera if you mess with recording light
THE SO WHAT
Meta hard-bricking cameras when users tamper with the recording light bakes privacy signaling into hardware, not just policy. Anyone building wearables with sensors should expect regulators and platforms to push for similar "unbypassable" cues — design for that constraint now.
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