Know before
you wear.

AI wearables evolve every month. We track the privacy changes that matter before they reach your face.

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What changed
when it mattered.

Four material moments—not every version number. Each is linked to its source and translated into the question a potential wearer should ask.

Iconic square-frame AI glasses for everyday use.

Capture became easier to notice.

Meta launched the next Ray-Ban generation with a larger, more visible capture LED intended to signal when people are being photographed, filmed, or livestreamed.

PROTECTION STRENGTHENED

Prisim’s read: This improves the bystander signal—but it only works if the light stays visible and people recognise what it means.

Looking became an AI input.

Meta confirmed that images or video a wearer shares with Meta AI for analysis may be used to improve its AI, depending on the product terms and location.

DATA USE EXPANDED

Prisim’s read: A camera is no longer only a capture tool when visual AI is enabled. The key decision is when a view becomes an AI prompt.

AI settings moved toward default-on.

Meta notified Ray-Ban Meta owners of policy changes around AI features and the use of voice interactions to improve its products, as reported by TechCrunch.

PRIVACY WATCH

Prisim’s read: More useful voice AI should come with an especially clear explanation of retention, review, and the controls a wearer can actually change.

LED tampering now disables the camera.

Meta says it is updating its AI glasses so the camera is disabled if the capture LED is physically tampered with or destroyed, extending the earlier blocked-LED safeguard.

PROTECTION STRENGTHENED

Prisim’s read: This responds directly to a real weakness in a bystander-protection control. It is meaningful because it makes the safeguard harder to bypass.

The score you can question

Trust is a
moving record.

Scores belong in their own place, where the evidence and incidents behind each change can be inspected—not compressed into the homepage.

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We separate claims, changes, and independent reporting.

Every Prisim interpretation stays attached to a primary source or clearly-labelled reporting. A score is never a substitute for the record.

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02 / decisions, not documents

We show whether a change improves protections or expands data use.

The Trust Dashboard keeps the three current glasses comparable while leaving the homepage to tell one clear story at a time.

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More to see,
soon.

Meta glasses are the launch point. Prisim will broaden to the devices that increasingly share your day-to-day world.

coming soon

VR & mixed reality

What a headset can see, map, record, and retain.

coming soon

Display & AR

When a wearable puts maps, messages, and a camera in your line of sight.

coming soon

AI companions

Always-on assistants and the personal context they are asked to hold.