Are You Being Filmed by Smart Glasses? How to Spot the Hidden Cameras
It's early days for smart glasses, but they're already causing big problems.
Last month, a woman in London was approached by a man wearing smart glasses, who recorded their interaction without her knowledge. The video was uploaded to social media without her consent -- it got 40,000 views, and the man refused to take it down unless she paid him.
This is just the latest in a series of events that highlight the privacy concerns of smart glasses like Meta Ray-Bans. These look like a chunkier pair of normal black Ray-Ban Wayfarers, and the average person probably wouldn't suspect that their frames contain a hidden camera.
When I told my friend about them, she was disgusted. "Ew," she said. "Why do those exist?"
I've never owned a pair of smart glasses, but I saw them in the wild twice last year. Once was when I was...
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