Wednesday 15 April 2026 – 12:43 AM
Raised glasses Meta Smart phones have a new wave of controversy, after reports of their use by some people to secretly photograph women during daily meetings and publish the clips on social networking sites without their knowledge or consent.
Meta glasses put women’s privacy at risk
According to what was published by Wired magazine, an increasing number of content makers and promoters of what is known as the “art of seduction” are resorting to wearing smart glasses while they wander the streets, shopping centers, or nightlife venues, to document their attempts to approach women and secretly film their reactions.
These clips usually showed short conversations, flirtatious expressions, or attempts to obtain phone numbers, before they were later published on platforms such as TikTok and Instagram with the aim of achieving high views and wide spread.
Criticism increased with the emergence of cases of women who later discovered that they had been part of video clips without their knowledge. Among those cases, Cassie revealed that she was surprised by the spread of a video documenting a fleeting conversation she had with a stranger, after one of her friends sent her the clip, which had achieved thousands of views.
Cassie said she felt shocked and insulted, considering that filming her without her consent and using the clip to spread the word is insulting to women and reflects a clear exploitation of privacy.
The controversy did not stop at the limits of secret photography only, but extended to larger concerns related to the possibility of adding facial recognition technology to these glasses in the future, which may allow the identification of people in real time while walking on the street or inside public places.
More than 70 organizations concerned with civil liberties and privacy issued warnings against this step, demanding that Mark Zuckerberg, owner of Meta, withdraw from any plans to launch technologies that might enhance unannounced surveillance.
For its part, Meta confirmed that it does not currently offer face recognition in its smart glasses, indicating that it will deal with any future development related to this matter with extreme caution.
Swedish press reports also revealed that the footage captured through these glasses may include very private situations, such as the presence of people in the bathrooms or while changing clothes, at a time when some of these materials are used to train the company’s artificial intelligence systems.
Critics believe that the continued spread of this phenomenon may transform smart glasses from just an innovative technical tool into a new means of violating privacy and exploiting people without their knowledge.
