Meta’s Smart Glasses May Have Been Recording People Without Their Knowledge
THE SO WHAT
If smart glasses are capturing conversations without a wake phrase, the privacy risk shifts from edge cases to everyday environments. Any team shipping ambient AI hardware needs a crisp, auditable story on recording controls — or regulators and venues will write the rules for them.
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