Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Recorded Conversations Without the Wake Phrase
Some Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses recorded people's conversations without the wearer knowing. The recordings happened without users saying the prompt phrase, "Hey, Meta," and Meta says the bug has been fixed.
A microphone you wear on your face has one acceptable failure mode: staying quiet when nothing was asked of it. Everything else about the device — the design, the feel, the pitch — is downstream of whether that holds.
AI-generated discussion · Different perspectives
One account gives the failure a concrete shape: a Reddit user going by Kindly-Audience-137 said it happened across three pairs of Meta Ray-Bans, and that the "Respond without Hey Meta" setting was turned off.
The setting name points at the mismatch. A toggle about responding without the wake phrase is a toggle about answers; what people thought they were protected from was capture, which is a different thing entirely.