Smart Glasses Are Capturing Footage in Public. Here's How to Spot Them

New smart glasses are debuting this week at Augmented World Expo. There's a lot of powerful technology packed into upcoming devices like Snap Specs and XReal Aura, which aren't much thicker than a normal pair of glasses. But is society ready for the repercussions of everyone walking around with cameras on their faces?

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 one of many events that highlight the privacy concerns of smart glasses.

I told a friend about Meta Ray-Bans, which look like a chunkier pair of normal black Ray-Ban Wayfarers. The average person probably wouldn't suspect that their frames contain a hidden...

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