{"id":288627,"date":"2026-10-16T19:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/bug-turns-one-of-the-biggest-fears-about-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-into-reality\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T19:11:50","slug":"bug-turns-one-of-the-biggest-fears-about-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-into-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/bug-turns-one-of-the-biggest-fears-about-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-into-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Some Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses were recording people\u2019s conversations without the wearer knowing. The recordings occurred without users saying the prompt phrase (\u201cHey, Meta\u201d), in a bug that Meta says has been fixed.<\/p>\n<p>This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/RaybanMeta\/comments\/1x4n96n\/warning_my_rayban_meta_glasses_are_recording\/\">some users<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MetaGlasses\/comments\/1x4o2dm\/comment\/pgfb0l2\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">reported<\/a> online that their Ray-Ban Metas were recording without their consent. A person going by Kindly-Audience-137 on Reddit, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MetaGlasses\/comments\/1x4o2dm\/comment\/pgfb0l2\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">said<\/a> this happened to them across three Meta Ray-Bans and that they had the \u201cRespond without Hey Meta\u201d setting turned off. The person said the Meta AI app \u201csaves audio recordings and text transcripts of these conversations in my conversation history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe this deserves a serious technical investigation. Customers should not have to wonder whether their private conversations are being captured when they have not intentionally activated their glasses\u2019 AI assistant,\u201d the Reddit user said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/10\/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-found-recording-audio-without-wearers-consent\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/10\/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-found-recording-audio-without-wearers-consent\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses were recording people\u2019s conversations without the wearer knowing. The recordings occurred without users saying the prompt phrase (\u201cHey, Meta\u201d), in a bug that Meta says has been fixed. This week, some users reported online that their Ray-Ban Metas were recording without their consent. A person going by Kindly-Audience-137 on Reddit, for example, said this happened to them across three Meta Ray-Bans and that they had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/bug-turns-one-of-the-biggest-fears-about-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-into-reality\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses were recording people\u2019s conversations without the wearer knowing. 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