I’m so sorry your day was so rough, that sounds absolutely horrible. Sending you a lot of warm thoughts and I hope you’re a little more comfy at the moment <3

Why do you think it implies anything beyond “men who wear smart glasses on dates are a red flag”?

Then what are you doing here?

I can see that you are confused.

Men who wear smart glasses on dates are a red flag.

I really don’t know why you’re so confused by that statement.

But men who wear smart glasses on dates are a red flag. That is a truthful statement.

Do you contest that the majority of people abusing these smart glasses are men?

Yeah I quoted the literal subtitle in my comment:

As anxieties over surveillance tech grow, unsuspecting singles are sharing stories of being covertly filmed on dates by Meta smart glasses.

The article is very upfront about what it contains - anecdotal stories from people who have been filmed while on dates. They all are women that were filmed by men.

Men and boys.

It’s backing up the Wired’s title by showing that is predominantly men who are using these glasses to film women without their consent.

This one’s title is “Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools”

It’s not sensationalized when it’s the truth. Men who wear these smart glasses on dates are a red flag.

Here’s another article, this one is from 404 Media:

The researchers compiled a dataset of 350 Instagram videos posted between September 2023 and March 2026. The videos fit specific criteria: they depicted real-world interactions involving unsolicited approaches to women in public or semi-public settings. “Unsolicited interactions were defined as approaches that appeared to be initiated without prior indication of mutual engagement,” the researchers wrote in the paper. “We included videos that appeared to be staged, scripted, or comedic performance as it is often difficult to confidently determine intent in platform content, and such material may still contribute to the circulation and normalisation of these interactions.” They found the videos by searching hashtags and keywords commonly used by pickup artist grifters.

The more surreptitious the filming seemed, the researchers found, the more serious the harassment. “The data reveals a clear correlation between the ‘covertness’ of the filming modality and the severity of the harassment,” they wrote. “This combination of first-person perspective and device concealment confirms that the means of production remain largely clandestine, facilitating a condition of low awareness among subjects and reinforcing the deceptive nature of wearable-mediated capture.”

It’s literally the subtitle.

But it is men that are doing this in much larger numbers than anyone else. So the focus of the article is on the type of men who use these glasses while on dates.

This one talks about teen boys using these smart glasses to record girls in their middle and high schools

The video has the distinctive style of the invasive “rizzcam” and other “POV” videos in which self-styled “pickup artists” and other online creators use smart glasses to record themselves harassing women at malls and boardwalks or pestering employees at their place of work for content. But the people in this video aren’t adults. Everyone in the clip — the girl, the boy filming, and hallway passersby — is a teenage student.

A Futurism review found large numbers of videos recorded at middle and high schools using smart glasses — almost always Meta’s AI Glasses, designed in partnership with the eyewear titan Ray-Ban — and shared to social media platforms TikTok and Instagram. Recordings take place in school hallways, cafeterias, and classrooms, and feature interactions with other students as well as with staff and faculty.

Much of the behavior on display is plainly harassment and bullying, often filmed without the subjects’ knowledge or consent and uploaded online to humiliate them further. Strikingly, every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls.

Here’s another one, this time from BBC:

Women leaving the beach, going into a shop, or simply standing outside are now being approached by men usually wearing Meta’s Ray-Bans, the company’s “smart” or “AI” glasses, often in order to film the women’s responses to casual questions or pick-up lines without their knowledge or consent.

The women only find out about the videos of them after they gain traction, and often abuse, online. They have little legal recourse as photography in public is broadly considered legal. One woman told the BBC that when she asked the person who posted a secret recording of her to remove it, she was told that doing so was “a paid service”.

Meta’s glasses are currently the most popular on the market, estimated to make up more than 80% of all AI or smart glasses sales, as the company was the first major tech player to launch such a product in recent years.

Made in partnership with EssilorLuxottica and offering the classic look of Ray-Bans, the glasses feature an almost invisible camera in the frames, small speakers in the arms, and in the latest version lenses that can show a wearer some information. People can start recording video or take a photo with a casual touch of the frames.

The nature of the camera in Meta’s glasses can be so unobtrusive that even their wearers have been caught off guard by what and when they’re recording, and where those recordings are going.

The rest is about how recording people without their consent is bad, and these glasses make it easy…

Yes and guess the type of person who is overwhelmingly abusing the glasses and recording without people’s consent. Take a wild guess.

This article is part of a larger conversation about smart glasses, privacy concerns, and how people are using them.

As anxieties over surveillance tech grow, unsuspecting singles are sharing stories of being covertly filmed on dates by Meta smart glasses.

The article is very upfront about what it contains - anecdotal stories from people who have been filmed while on dates. They all are women that were filmed by men.

What are you trying to argue here? That when people use hidden cameras it’s not as scandalous or something?

It is creepy to record someone without their consent. These smart glasses have made it even easier to do so.