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Good news for those who don't want to be caught on camera

"The Capture LED lets others know when you're capturing content or going live. If the LED is covered, you'll be notified to clear it."

So that's nice.

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Makes me think of the power dynamic between smart glass wearers and bystanders as a social problem and not a technical one: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ar-glasses

It's better than nothing, but it does put other people in the uncomfortable position of having to ask the glasses wearer to not record. And can you see the indication before you're actually on camera?

The counter is to put on your own pair of glasses that have mirrored lenses, a laser beam scanning back and forth and a prominent shotgun microphone pointed at the other person.

Right, but only if you know what to look for, and are actively looking.

They didn't say it wouldn't record.

You've read your fair share of T&C's …

Wow you are right, does anyone know if this still records with the light off or covered?

I had the original version of these, which didn't know if the LED was covered, but it didn't matter because no one even noticed when the LED was on, or if they did, they didn't seem to realize that it was a camera. I tried it at a party to get some candid shots with my friends. But in the end, the quality wasn't good enough for the candid shots to actually be worth keeping.

By the time you've seen that led, it likely far too late. :(

The jailbreak will be out tomorrow.

Black nail polish is out today

"If the LED is covered, you will be required to uncover it."

Can you post where it says that, all I can find is "you will be notified"?

It's right on the linked page, but you're right it doesn't say anything about being 'required' to uncover it.

>Bystander privacy

>The Capture LED lets others know when you’re capturing content or going live. If the LED is covered, you’ll be notified to clear it.

Wow, that is so dirty. They are doing the 2009 "get people to share things privately and then do a settings refactor that now makes the private things public until you reset them to private" Wow, I am sure this ends well for Rayband. :)

I interpreted "you’ll be notified to clear it" in the sense of "You will be notified that this is the reason the camera won't take pictures".

It seems like a logical assumption - what's the point of adding tech to prevent the target-visible warning light from being obscured, if you're still allowed to take the pictures with it obscured?

It's also fairly trivial to disable an LED physically.

On a site called "hacker news" how is this not mentioned at the top-level to all of the "an led prevents people from silently recording you"?

Pretty inconspicuous. So no, not a great feature to stream/live upload people who didnt want their privacy violated.

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