These Glasses Have a Hidden Camera – Here's How to Tell if They're Recording You

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A woman is approached by a man wearing smart glasses. Next thing she knows, there's a video of their interaction, uploaded to social media without her consent. It gets 40,000 views, and the man refuses to take it down unless she pays 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 those 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 riding the New York subway and noticed a person sitting across from me wearing the frames.

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