‘I Felt Super Violated’: Men Wearing Meta Glasses on Dates Is an Instant Red Flag
Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses are causing social friction as users report being recorded without consent during dates. The trend has led to privacy concerns and the glasses being labeled as 'creep glasses' in some social circles.
Why it matters
The rise of wearable recording technology highlights a growing tension between consumer tech innovation and social norms regarding privacy and consent.
They met at a bar in midtown Manhattan. He arrived wearing a baseball cap pulled low and sported a pair of black-framed glasses, she says. As conversation flowed, from discussions about navigating life in New York to past relationships, he mentioned that his glasses were Meta Ray-Bans.
“I wasn’t familiar with them,” McAnuff, a 28-year-old project manager who now lives in Toronto, tells WIRED. It was her first time seeing the smart glasses up close, which can record images and video from the wearer’s viewpoint. He let her try them on and even showed her a couple of videos that he’d taken previously, she says. “That was it. We stopped talking about it after that. I figured that was the end of the use.”
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