Jens Kessler (@jens-kessler.bsky.social)

How People Secretly Record You With Meta Glasses People across the country are offering a service on Facebook Marketplace to disable the recording light on Ray-Ban Meta glasses. They call it “Stealth Mode.” Joanna paid $100 for the modification and went inside the growing business of turning smart glasses into covert cameras. She investigates who is doing it, whether it’s legal and what some are doing to try and stop it. Chapters: [00:00 - 00:45] Intro [00:46 - 01:36] Why people remove the recording light (RizzzCam) [01:37 - 02:28] How the light usually works [02:29- 04:11] The process of drilling the light [04:12 - 05:17] A nationwide problem [05:18 - 06:18] Is it illegal? [06:19 - 07:18] The apps trying to fight back 🎤 MWL’s document on state recording laws https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/RECORDING-CONVERSATIONS-CHART.pdf 📬 Our videos are free here, but support our work by subscribing to the New Things thenewthings.com/subscribe. 📙 Order Joanna’s new book at joannastern.com 💼 Want to sponsor our stuff? Email [email protected] ▶️ Subscribe here so you don’t miss future videos https://www.youtube.com/c/joannastern Who is Joanna Stern? Emmy winner. Pulitzer finalist. Professional asker of uncomfortable questions. New York Times bestselling author. Joanna spent 12 years at The Wall Street Journal making videos and writing columns before founding New Things. Before that, she helped start The Verge and worked at ABC News. She believes technology should work for humans—and that journalism should be fun. She is working on both. She also is the author of the new book I AM NOT A ROBOT: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything. As NBC News' Chief Technology Analyst, her reporting and The New Things content regularly appears across NBC's broadcasts and platforms. For Joanna’s full resume, see LinkedIn. You can find me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/joannastern Or on X here: https://x.com/JoannaStern Or on LinkedIn here: linkedin.com/in/joannastern https://youtu.be/EaJSPeJmqis