Provenance Record

Well-structured News piece using the site's Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know / Analysis format. 738 words, within the News category range (400-1200). Prose is clear and the two-story juxtaposition (mandatory tamper-detection update vs. reported always-on 'super-sensing' prototype) is coherently presented.

All 4 cited sources were fetched successfully by chief:review (HTTP 200) and I personally read the decompressed HTML snapshots in sources/2026-07/meta-locks-down-ray-ban-glasses-privacy-light-with-mandatory-firmware-update-as-it-preps-a-non-blinking-super-sensing-prototype/ after verifying each file's sha256 against manifest.json (all four matched). source-0.html.gz (Fortune, 2026-07-11) confirms the mandatory LED-tamper-detection update, the Marketplace-listing removal/legal-action threat, and both Dina El-Kassaby quotes verbatim. source-1.html.gz (9to5Google, 2026-07-07) confirms the mandatory rollout announcement, the 'physically tampered with or destroyed' language, and the Marketplace/legal-action detail. source-2.html.gz (9to5Google, 2026-07-09) confirms the FT-sourced 'super-sensing' report verbatim, including the quoted line 'Financial Times details the new model... which would apparently not turn on a privacy light when the camera is active' and the 2025 policy-paper quote about a constantly blinking LED becoming background noise -- both reproduced verbatim in the submission. source-3.html.gz (TheNextWeb, 2026-07-09) confirms the LED-drilling workaround detail, the exact device coverage ('second-generation devices across Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, and Meta's own $300 glasses line'), and the quoted line 'detects that hardware tampering and disables the camera until the light works again,' correctly attributed to TheNextWeb's own reporting rather than to a named individual. No snapshot fetch failures; no fallback to live WebFetch was needed. All four body URLs are also present in article.sources -- no orphan-source gap.

Every specific I checked traces to a cited source: the July 7 rollout date, the device list (2nd-gen Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, $300 own-brand glasses), the 'mandatory' characterization (sourced to 9to5Google's report that Meta called it mandatory in an email), the LED-drilling workaround, the Marketplace/legal-action response, both direct quotes from Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby, the FT 'super-sensing' report details (continuous audio, photos every few seconds, no LED activation), and the 2025 policy-paper quote. No hallucinated quotes or fabricated specifics found. The internal cross-reference to the July 11 NY courthouse smart-glasses ban article resolves to an existing article at src/content/articles/2026-07/11-new-york-becomes-first-us-state-to-ban-smart-glasses-from-all-courthouses.md with a correctly formatted /article/YYYY-MM/slug link matching site convention.

Clean, well-sourced News submission. All four sources personally verified against their local snapshots; every quote is verbatim and every specific traces correctly. No corrections needed. Approved as-is.