Smart glasses aren’t exactly ubiquitous just yet. However, Meta does have an ace of a product in the scene up its sleeve: the best-selling Meta Ray-Bans, which are currently being sued over privacy concerns. As it turns out, they can very easily capture photos and videos of unsuspecting bystanders without third parties’ knowledge. Swedish news outlets have reported that some of the footage captured by these glasses — including sensitive content like nudity — is reviewed by offshore Meta workers in Kenya.
Even beyond those concerns, smart glasses like Meta’s can secretly film people in public.
Let’s backtrack: Meta Ray-Bans 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
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