Forget Weatherspoons — patchwork bans won't fix the Meta glasses' privacy crisis, so what comes next?

Pubs, restaurants, theatres, private clubs, and courtrooms — these are the venues where Meta’s nicknamed "pervert glasses" have already been banned across the UK. But could a wider blockade be soon to follow?

First landing on the British market in October 2023, the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have been facing a growing backlash across the country. The force behind it isn't tech skepticism, but a privacy crisis driven by non-consensual public recording, voyeurism, and third-party data processing.

With activist groups hacking London billboards, venue bans and calls for a complete Meta glasses sales embargo, the public is now viewing these AI spectacles as 'surveillance tech' tools rather than fun futuristic accessories. There may, eventually, be an appetite for a nationwide prohibition of these kinds of smart glasses both in public spaces as well as private ones.

But could a statutory ban on Meta AI glasses even be a...

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