Sometimes you find yourself in a

stranger's garage with a drill and a

dental probe. So, your smart glasses can

now be spy glasses. This light tells you

I'm recording, but by my count,

thousands of people are out there

recording without this light. They're

hiring people on Facebook Marketplace to

drill out the light for as much as $100.

According to our reporting, folks are

offering this service in at least 30

states despite Meta's attempts to stop

it.

>> When people come to you, do they ever

tell you why they want to do this?

>> No. I don't ask, they don't tell me.

>> There are lots of people doing this, but

there are also a lot of questions. How

easy is it? Is it illegal? And can

anything be done to stop it?

>> Are those filming you?

>> No, no, they're not recording.

>> You guys don't have Meta glasses on.

>> Yeah, it's my regular glasses on.

>> It's already difficult enough to film in

public. I don't want to have a blinking

light on my face.

>> There are plenty of reasons someone

might want to obscure the light on these

$250 Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses. Here's

one trend that's exploded online.

>> Today I'm going to be rizzing up some

people. Excuse me, you look fantastic.

>> It's called rizz camming. People hitting

on others while secretly recording the

interaction through glasses, then

posting the videos online for millions

to watch. To be clear, we're not saying

all rizz cammers have disabled the light

or that everyone who's disabled the

light is a rizz cammer. One journalist I

talked to did it so she could cover ICE

in Minneapolis without drawing attention

to the fact that she was recording.

Others told me they just don't want

people asking questions when they're

recording. Hey Meta, record a video.

>> Quick Ray-Ban Meta anatomy lesson. The

lens on the right side is the camera.

The one on the left side is the light to

indicate recording. Meta and

EssilorLuxottica sold over 7 million

pairs of smart glasses in 2025. So, I

bought a new pair of glasses to see See

hard it would be to turn that light off.

First, I tried a little piece of black

tape and let's put it right on here.

>> Hey Meta, record a video.

>> The capture LED is blocked. Unblock the

front of the glasses to use the camera.

>> Meta explicitly says on its website that

if the light is covered, you'll be

notified to clear it before taking a

photo or video or going live. So next, I

bought these LED blockers on Amazon.

They let just enough light through so

recording still works, but it can be

noticeable, which is why there's now a

whole cottage industry on Facebook

Marketplace where people advertise

stealth mode where they remove the light

entirely and make the glasses look brand

new. So I contacted one of the sellers.

I agreed to his $100 price and he agreed

to let us film if we didn't use his real

name or show his face. So let's call him

Stealth Cam Steve.

>> Just driving to get my light removed.

This little light of mine.

Not going to let it shine.

>> And yes, I brought my producer David and

we did a background check before meeting

a guy from the internet in a New Jersey

garage.

>> These are set to go.

>> Stealth Cam Steve took us through his

whole process, which he learned himself

by watching others on YouTube and

TikTok. He taped up the glasses and left

a little opening around the LED light.

>> So now what I'm going to do,

I'm going to break [snorts] the glass.

Breaking the glass, cleaning out the

glass so that I could start drilling.

So this is a a Dremel

with a small bit.

>> Up.

It's gone.

No light.

>> No light.

>> After that, he filled the little hole

with a bit of resin, which makes it look

like glass again.

>> So now I put it under the UV, I dry it

for a few seconds.

So what I do is I take the paper off.

>> Look at that.

>> And then what I'll do is I'll just

double-check around.

>> That's some pretty clean work. That's

really flat and looks

like a lens. Hey Meta,

start recording. No light

and no alert on my phone. So, no errors.

Totally able to record now. I did

not have a hard time finding people that

would do this service in this state.

There were many, many people. At least

10 that uh people that I reached out to

for this.

But, what we found is that they're all

over the country.

>> We searched Facebook Marketplace in

every state for this service, and we

found ads for it in 30 states. In most

states, we found multiple listings. In

the New York and New Jersey area alone,

there were 23 listings.

When I reached out to Meta, a company

spokesman said, "We aggressively target

anyone advertising tampering tools, have

removed thousands of violating ads and

Marketplace listings for these services,

and pursue legal action when

appropriate." After we contacted Meta

for this story, many of the listings we

found disappeared. But, plenty of device

hackers are still finding ways to reach

customers, and it's a profitable

business. Prices nationwide range from

$50 to $100 a pop, and many folks say

they're doing multiple pairs a day.

>> Just today, how many people do you think

reached out to get this done?

>> I'd say about eight or nine people.

>> What Steve and the many other Meta

Glasses hackers are doing is not

illegal. Against the Meta terms of

service? Yes. As it says here, "You may

not tamper with the glasses or otherwise

obscure or modify any of the features on

the glasses that signal to others that

the glasses are recording." Meta also

shared that the majority of glasses

owners use their glasses as intended.

The company also said it's working with

other retailers and sellers to take down

items that violate the terms, like those

LED [music] covers. But, the worst thing

that happens if you get this service

done is your warranty is voided. That's

not punishable by law. What might be

illegal is covert recording.

>> There are extreme jurisdictional nuances

to this. Our law firm at mwl-law.com

publishes a chart. It's a 50-state

survey on recording laws. And it

outlines what we're looking for. And

there's either all-party consent states,

meaning that all parties to a recorded

conversation

need to consent to that. There are other

states that are one-party consent state.

>> This seems to be our new reality. More

cameras, more microphones everywhere.

And less certainty about who and what is

recording. The upside, people are trying

to fight back. Apps have popped up that

use Bluetooth to scan for nearby camera

glasses.

One of those apps is called No

Glasshole. A throwback to Google Glass

and Glassholes. The app shows the

glasses that are out of their case.

>> update tomorrow that would go to

everyone. And now we have the ability to

tell if someone's using it. They could

take No Glasshole, they have the best

engineers in the world, they could just

build the same technology into the Meta

AI app. There are technical solutions to

these problems, and my goal is to like

push them toward making these like

solutions possible. Because what really

worries me about this covert recording

crowd is that they're not just like

being rude. They're they're risking our

ability to put on like to jump into this

new world, to like record hands-free

videos with my kids, to travel the world

with live transcription. They're not

actually just great for me.

>> And I really agree with that last point.

I've been wearing Meta Ray-Bans for

years because they're a convenient way

to record without a smartphone in my

hand. And I haven't had a problem with

the light being on. But, now because of

a few bad actors, any person wearing

these glasses may end up looking like a

rizz camera, browser.

Did it hurt

when you fell from heaven?