Always On. Always Watching.

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. A TechCrunch headline crossed my Mastodon feed today about Meta wanting its AI glasses to "seem less creepy," and I laughed reading it. Not because the premise is wrong. Because the timing is so bad it's almost generous of Meta to hand it to us like this. Here's the sequence. Meta announced its AI glasses will now disable the camera entirely if someone tampers with or covers the little white capture LED — the light that's supposed to tell bystanders "hey, this thing might be recording you." Good feature, on its face. People have been figuring out how to defeat that LED since the glasses launched, and closing that hole is a reasonable thing to ship. Except in the same week, the Financial Times reported Meta is testing a "super-sensing" prototype that would keep the camera and mic running continuously for hours, snapping photos every few seconds. And internally, Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly questioned whether the LED needs to stay on…