That friendly stranger in Ray-Bans might be filming you, LED off
Meta Glasses sold roughly 7 million pairs in 2025, tripling prior years combined, but their runaway popularity has a dark side: a cottage industry of vendors like 'Ghost Metas' now specializes in disabling the little LED light that's supposed to warn people they're being recorded. Customers include, by the operator's own admission, people filming strangers without consent in changing rooms, strip clubs and workplaces. Meanwhile a class-action lawsuit accuses Meta of overselling its privacy safeguards. The tech that promised to keep you connected might just be quietly recording everyone around you.
Nothing says 'move fast and break things' like breaking the one light meant to protect you from being secretly filmed.