Instagram To Ban Creepy POV Videos Shot With Meta Glasses

Instagram is drawing a line under a growing trend that has made many social media users uncomfortable: creators wearing smart glasses to secretly film strangers for viral "pickup" and prank videos.The Meta-owned platform says it will now remove videos recorded using smart glasses if they show people being harassed or taken advantage of. The move comes after a surge in first-person, or POV (point-of-view), videos where creators approach unsuspecting women in public places such as beaches, gyms and busy streets, often without their knowledge or consent.In an Instagram Story, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said the company will crack down on such content."If you're posting content that is taking advantage of people and harassing them, like a lot of these pickup line kind of videos that we've heard of and seen, then we're going to take the content down," Mosseri said."We don't want people to be surreptitiously taking videos of other…