# Instagram bans creeps filming with Meta glasses

Source: https://idevice.com/instagram-bans-ray-ban-meta-glasses-harassment
Published: 2026-07-24

> Meta deactivated two pick-up artist accounts with over a million followers each for posting covert Ray-Ban Meta footage, under rules it already had.

Meta has started removing Instagram accounts that use its own glasses to record strangers, after Business Insider reported the practice. Two pick-up artist accounts, each with more than a million followers, were deactivated under the bullying and harassment rules Meta already had on the books. Instagram's head put the standard plainly: the company does not want people "surreptitiously taking videos of other people". The videos ran from staged pickup encounters to footage taken in workplaces.

Enforcement after the fact is a strange remedy for a recording that already happened, and Digital Trends reads the crackdown as damage control rather than a fix. Nothing about the product changed, which is why the week's other stories are the same story: an app charging [$3 to detect the glasses](https://idevice.com/people-are-paying-3-to-spot-meta) climbed the App Store, and stickers appeared that [defeat the recording light](https://idevice.com/a-2-sticker-beats-meta-s-anti-creep). Lifehacker's advice is the tell, telling readers to look for thicker frames and the LED, which is what you do when the platform cannot help you in the moment.