Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality

[u/Stiltonrocks]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-found-recording-audio-without-wearers-consent/

[u/agha0013]

Oh yeah, bug, sure..just a quirky thing no one did on purpose at all....

[u/purple_purple_eater9 → u/agha0013]

“These flagrant violations of personal privacy are just quirky bugs lawlz” - Meta, probably

[u/za72 → u/purple_purple_eater9]

rogue agents

[u/AbeFromanEast]

That was no bug. Meta wants training data. 22 years of living with Facebook/Meta has proven that Zuckerberg has zero morals and will monitor everyone as intensively as he legally can.

[u/Hndlbrrrrr → u/AbeFromanEast]

“Legal” is however much the fines cost him, he’ll never go to prison for what Meta does.

[u/Scoot892 → u/Hndlbrrrrr]

It’s only illegal if you get caught and it gets enforced

[u/vessel_for_the_soul → u/Hndlbrrrrr]

Only when he loses his influence.

[u/colin_staples → u/AbeFromanEast]

People would turn their privacy settings to maximum, only to find that those settings had all been turned off again.

Facebook always said it was a “bug”

And yet the bug always turned the privacy settings off. It never turned them on.

Funny, that.

Tells you a lot about Facebook.

So I’m not surprised about this, not in the slightest.

[u/PhoenixTineldyer]

"Bug."

This is what the perv glasses are for, spying on you so they can sell you shit.

[u/ParliamenttFnkadelic → u/PhoenixTineldyer]

Well, it was a bug. The secretly collected recordings were not supposed to be visible to users in the conversation history. That bug has been fixed; they'll go straight to Meta without the users knowing from now on.

[u/HulkScreamAIDS → u/PhoenixTineldyer]

"Bug", "feature", tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to.

[u/chris5070]

About time these articles mention Ray-Ban they have been getting away with mention for too long.

[u/mc1964]

It's not a bug. It's a feature.

[u/Tasty-Hour4040]

“Bug”. Sure. It’s Facebook, folks - you’re naive if you don’t assume guilty until proven innocent with the psychos at that company.

[u/orlybatman]

Some Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses were recording people’s conversations without the wearer knowing. The recordings occurred without users saying the prompt phrase (“Hey, Meta”), in a bug that Meta says has been fixed.

Yeah, it was a bug, in the surveillance sense. It still is.

[u/paypaypayme]

No fucking way it’s a bug. I work in software engineering and at a company as big as meta you wouldn’t ship a product with a blatant bug like that

[u/SimianWriter → u/paypaypayme]

Especially in the age of AI debugging. This would have been flagged in ten minutes.

[u/purple_purple_eater9]

Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses feature operates as intended.

[u/VVrayth]

The biggest fear about these spy glasses is that they exist at all.

[u/SoupSpelunker]

Oh no, my spy glasses are spying on me, who could have seen that coming?!?! 

[u/rawbamatic]

Why would people think they have any privacy when they're wearing the super secure pervert glasses?

[u/CopperSteve]

Pervert glasses, can't think of any reason to wear those except be a sex pest. Gigantic losers