As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings
As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings
随着 Meta AI 眼镜需求激增，避开“偷拍”变得越来越难
Can you tell when someone nearby is wearing Meta AI glasses? As millions of people buy into the smart glasses fad each year, the odds are increasing that you could be secretly recorded while simply going about your day. 你能分辨出周围的人是否戴着 Meta AI 眼镜吗？随着每年有数百万人追捧智能眼镜潮流，你在日常生活中被秘密录像的概率正在不断增加。
Meta is not the only smart glasses maker, but its AI glasses are by far the most popular. And as the devices become more common, some public places, including schools, courts, restaurants, and entertainment venues, have begun to ban them. Meta 并非唯一的智能眼镜制造商，但其 AI 眼镜无疑是最受欢迎的。随着这些设备变得越来越普遍，一些公共场所（包括学校、法院、餐厅和娱乐场所）已开始禁止佩戴此类设备。
Even tech lovers have rejected Meta glasses in certain settings. The hackers behind DEF CON 2026 reportedly banned smart glasses with no exceptions, reminding attendees with prescription pairs to “be sure to pack non-violating eyewear if you need them.” 即使是科技爱好者也在特定场合拒绝使用 Meta 眼镜。据报道，DEF CON 2026 的黑客组织已全面禁止智能眼镜，并提醒佩戴矫正视力款式的参会者：“如果需要，请务必携带符合规定的眼镜。”
But a ban is only as effective as the people enforcing it. Spotting a pair of smart glasses can require tech-savvy security staff, and enforcement may depend on users voluntarily disclosing their devices—or on watchful observers speaking up. 但禁令的有效性取决于执行力度。识别智能眼镜可能需要具备技术知识的安保人员，而执行往往依赖于用户主动申报，或者依靠警惕的旁观者出面制止。
Those bans are an important way to push back against the potential for abuse. But privacy advocates know that increasing the social friction around nonconsensual recording can’t stop the practice by itself. 这些禁令是抵制潜在滥用行为的重要手段。但隐私倡导者深知，仅仅增加未经同意录像的社会阻力，并不能从根本上杜绝这种行为。
Until comprehensive consumer privacy laws are passed, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned that Meta seems prepared to make the tech even more invasive in its bid to sell more glasses and stay ahead of rivals in the burgeoning industry. 在全面的消费者隐私法出台之前，电子前沿基金会（EFF）警告称，为了销售更多眼镜并在这一新兴行业中保持领先，Meta 似乎准备让这项技术变得更具侵入性。
And as AI advances, EFF staff technologist Cooper Quintin told Ars, potential new features such as facial recognition could raise the stakes further, potentially allowing the devices to be used to create convincing deepfakes or nonconsensual intimate imagery of people who may not be aware that cameras are rolling. EFF 员工技术专家 Cooper Quintin 对 Ars 表示，随着 AI 的进步，人脸识别等潜在新功能可能会进一步加剧风险，使这些设备被用于制作令人信服的深度伪造内容，或在当事人不知情的情况下拍摄非自愿的私密影像。
“I think that there are a lot of other concerns there beyond just being recorded without your knowledge,” Quintin told Ars. “我认为除了在不知情的情况下被录像之外，还有许多其他令人担忧的问题，”Quintin 对 Ars 说道。
EFF has warned that smart glasses makers will likely be tempted to add facial-recognition features unless lawmakers intervene and give people a private right to sue companies whose products violate their biometric privacy rights. EFF 警告称，除非立法者介入并赋予公民起诉侵犯其生物识别隐私权公司的权利，否则智能眼镜制造商很可能会被诱导添加人脸识别功能。
In the meantime, the group has released a guide for smart-glasses users that lays out ways to resist facial recognition, develop responsible recording habits, and better understand the privacy risks of continuous recording. It also urges users to consider blurring strangers’ faces before posting videos online. 与此同时，该组织发布了一份智能眼镜用户指南，列出了抵制人脸识别、培养负责任的录像习惯以及更好地理解持续录像带来的隐私风险的方法。它还敦促用户在将视频发布到网上之前，考虑对陌生人的面部进行模糊处理。
For people unknowingly targeted in secret recordings, the only safety feature Meta provides is nearly “useless,” Quintin told Ars. A tiny recording light that can be easily covered with a sticker is unlikely to deter bad actors intent on abusing the glasses, whether that’s stalkers or creepy partners secretly recording women in public bathrooms or private bedrooms. Quintin 对 Ars 表示，对于那些在不知情的情况下被秘密录像的人来说，Meta 提供的唯一安全功能几乎是“毫无用处”的。一个用贴纸就能轻易遮挡的小型录像指示灯，很难震慑那些蓄意滥用眼镜的坏人，无论是跟踪狂还是在公共厕所或私人卧室秘密拍摄女性的变态伴侣。
The tech has also controversially been used in immigration raids, 404 Media reported, and to harass sex workers and retail workers. And on social media, videos show a range of other unwanted recordings, from relatively inoffensive pranks to more harmful videos featuring bullying or harassment. The volume of these videos online suggests the LED feature “is better than nothing, but not by much,” Quintin said. 据 404 Media 报道，这项技术还曾被争议性地用于移民突袭，以及骚扰性工作者和零售业员工。在社交媒体上，视频显示了各种其他不受欢迎的录像行为，从相对无害的恶作剧到涉及欺凌或骚扰的更具伤害性的视频。Quintin 表示，网上这些视频的数量表明，LED 指示灯功能“聊胜于无，但作用有限”。
Hobbyists build apps to detect glasses
爱好者开发应用以检测眼镜
Experts have noted that Meta may already have plans to diminish that limited safety feature. The company is supposedly “testing a prototype of ‘super sensing’ AI glasses that would use cameras and audio recordings to capture a wearer’s every moment,” the Financial Times reported last month. 专家指出，Meta 可能已经计划削弱这一有限的安全功能。据《金融时报》上个月报道，该公司据称正在“测试一款‘超级感知’AI 眼镜原型，它将利用摄像头和音频录制功能捕捉佩戴者的每一个瞬间”。
According to sources familiar with Meta’s thinking, executives “are planning not to activate the LED when the super-sensing features are being used,” even though “that would make it harder for bystanders to know when they were being recorded.” 据熟悉 Meta 想法的消息人士透露，高管们“计划在启用超级感知功能时不激活 LED 指示灯”，尽管“这会让旁观者更难察觉自己何时被录像”。
Meta execs’ plans may change if the public’s privacy concerns remain a sticking point, though, sources have suggested. And backlash will likely be sustained as more people wear the glasses, since digital rights experts have accused Meta of failing to consider civil rights or privacy ramifications when designing new features. 不过，消息人士暗示，如果公众的隐私担忧持续成为阻碍，Meta 高管的计划可能会改变。随着佩戴眼镜的人数增加，抵制情绪可能会持续存在，因为数字权利专家指责 Meta 在设计新功能时未能考虑公民权利或隐私后果。
Perhaps most troublingly, Meta recently backpedaled and deleted an unreleased facial recognition system from its smart-glasses app that Wired and EFF revealed had been quietly installed on 50 million phones in June. It’s unclear if or when Meta might try to bring the facial recognition system back. Meta did not respond to Ars’ request to comment on this story. 最令人不安的是，Meta 最近撤回并删除了其智能眼镜应用中一个尚未发布的人脸识别系统。此前《连线》杂志和 EFF 披露，该系统曾在 6 月份被悄悄安装在 5000 万部手机上。目前尚不清楚 Meta 是否或何时会尝试恢复该人脸识别系统。Meta 未回应 Ars 对此事的置评请求。
As Meta glasses have become more commonplace, hobbyist programmers have been building apps to detect when smart glasses are nearby so people can steer clear of them. These civil defense apps, Quintin said, aren’t a perfect solution to the social problem of smart-glasses recording without consent. 随着 Meta 眼镜变得越来越普遍，业余程序员一直在开发应用程序来检测附近是否有智能眼镜，以便人们避开它们。Quintin 表示，这些“民防”应用程序并不能完美解决智能眼镜未经同意录像的社会问题。
But when used in combination with bans, the apps can offer wary members of the public a way to check if a ban is being enforced or whether a nearby device may begin recording at a sensitive time. Society needs both solutions, Quintin said, especially because the most popular and recognizable smart glasses available today will likely one day come in a wider assortment of trendy models, making them harder to spot in the wild. 但当这些应用与禁令结合使用时，它们可以为警惕的公众提供一种检查禁令是否得到执行，或者附近设备是否可能在敏感时刻开始录像的方法。Quintin 说，社会需要这两种解决方案，尤其是因为当今最流行、最易识别的智能眼镜未来可能会推出更多时尚款式，使其在公共场合更难被发现。
“You need to have the social construct around these being unwelcome, and you also need to be able to find when people are using these,” Quintin said. “Right now, they’re pretty easy to just detect with your eyes. They’re pretty obvious, but that might not always be the case. So technologies like this are also important to supplement that.” “你需要建立一种‘这些设备不受欢迎’的社会共识，同时也需要能够发现人们何时在使用它们，”Quintin 说。“目前，它们很容易用肉眼识别，非常明显，但情况可能不会一直如此。因此，这类技术对于补充（识别手段）也很重要。”
“I can do something about it”
“我可以为此做点什么”
Since February, engineers have been releasing and updating apps that help people detect glasses like Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, or Snap Spectacles. “It is completely unsurprising that people are building apps to fight back against Meta glasses and other surreptitious public recording,” Quintin told Ars. 自 2 月以来，工程师们一直在发布和更新应用程序，帮助人们检测 Ray-Ban Meta、Oakley Meta 或 Snap Spectacles 等眼镜。“人们开发应用程序来抵制 Meta 眼镜和其他秘密公共录像行为，这完全不足为奇，”Quintin 对 Ars 说道。