Technology

It would be trivial to just buy spy cameras already built for spying. The tech already exists

Buddy, have you been on Aliexpress recently? It's trivial to wire tiny cameras all over your body if you really wanted.

Not that it matters, I can point an 8K cinema camera at you in public, and you don't legally get a say.

The LED detects when it is blocked and the device refuses to function until it is unblocked. So no, working around that won't be trivial, at least until somebody has found a workaround.

If Meta wanted to be really throughout with this, they could also keep record of how often there is an issue with the LED and brick the device and close your account if they detect tempering. The whole "trivial to disable" doesn't fly in a world of closed ecosystem, locked down hardware and accounts requiring a real ID.

Also you can get spy cameras for $5 from Aliexpress anyway, so why even bother hacking this. Snapchat has some video recording glasses too if one needs an alternative.

Again you can record already without any led while "reading your messages" with your phone. Like I feel they did the expected and necessary.

Plus is not like there isn't already available pens, USB chargers, watches or whatever they can come up secret cameras, like if the intention was to secretly record somebody they wouldn't go with this ones disabling the led.... plenty of better less suspicious alternatives.

Ray ban have had them for years. I hate meta but it's not just them.

It took me a 3 second google search to find that it doesn't work with the LED covered.

By the time you notice someone's phone is out you've already been filmed. That's status quo these days, it isn't any creepier than every single person walking around with a camera in their pocket.

looks like a sharpie would do the trick