Modders are turning Meta Ray-Bans into spy glasses — it’s not cool, it’s creepy, and I hate it
- Modders are charging as little as $50 in the US to alter Ray-Ban Meta specs
- The altered smart glasses are then able to record without the safety light
- This allows bad actors to film secretly and potentially harass people
$50 or some technical know-how — that’s all it’s taking some to mod their Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to disable one of its most important safety features: the camera light.
The first-person video perspective is incredible for snapping first-person shots while on vacation or just living your day to day, but bad actors have been using smart glasses in more nefarious ways — often to harass women as the BBC reported earlier this year, with that likely to spike again as we enter beach season in the Northern hemisphere.
To help prevent secret recording, the Meta glasses switch on a light that plays the entire time. It sits on the left...
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