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Showing Original Post only (View all)People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" (Futurism, March 6, 2026) [View all]
This is related to an LBN thread I posted yesterday - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143627091 - about a TechCrunch article that started with this paragraph:
Meta is facing a new lawsuit over its AI smart glasses and their lack of privacy, after an investigation by Swedish newspapers found that workers at a Kenya-based subcontractor are reviewing footage from customers glasses, which included sensitive content, like nudity, people having sex, and using the toilet.
Today's article in Futurism:
https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-ray-ban-smart-pervert-glasses
The latest news about Metas subcontractors watching videos from smart glasses triggered a furor among users on social media, many of whom were already wary of the possibility of having somebody secretly recording them using a pair of Metas unassuming-looking glasses.
Many have quickly embraced a term for the devices thats presumably sending Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into paroxysms of fury: pervert glasses.
Im taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist, one user wrote.
Glad people are settling on the term pervert glasses,' another agreed. Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerbergs pervert glasses.
Many have quickly embraced a term for the devices thats presumably sending Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into paroxysms of fury: pervert glasses.
Im taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist, one user wrote.
Glad people are settling on the term pervert glasses,' another agreed. Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerbergs pervert glasses.
Luke Russert mentioned another possible misuse of Meta glasses that's a good reason to watch out for people wearing them:
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, âI do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.â My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
— Luke Russert (@lukerussert.bsky.social) 2026-03-05T15:27:49.560Z
The Futurism article also links to the Wired review of Meta's smart glasses from last fall
https://www.wired.com/review/ray-ban-meta-gen-2-glasses/
which concluded with this:
Fashion aside, these devices are in a fraught place. Privacy rights and the absolute explosion of surveillance tech are much harder to ignore these days. Especially as people buy mod kits to disable the indicator light on the Meta glasses that let people see when the Meta glasses are recording, or use their glasses to record themselves harassing workers in massage parlors.
I'm not saying these are glasses for creeps, but I can't help but feel like one while wearing them.
I'm not saying these are glasses for creeps, but I can't help but feel like one while wearing them.
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People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" (Futurism, March 6, 2026) [View all]
highplainsdem
Friday
OP
Why does every technological advance always end in people watching more porn and weird bathroom things?
Scrivener7
Friday
#1
In a strange way this is backwards. Porn has driven many of the technological advances.
unblock
Friday
#8
I saw quite a few people calling users of Meta glasses "glassholes" as well, copying the nickname
highplainsdem
Saturday
#11
You don't have to be a "pervert" or "creep" to record your partner naked/having sex with you in consenting fashion
AZJonnie
Saturday
#15
The perverts are the people who recorded that footage of others without consent. Or are you assuming
highplainsdem
Saturday
#13
It's possible, but certainly not guaranteed, that the recording was consensual. But not everyone will
highplainsdem
Saturday
#16
I would assume those are all referring to uploads to their public sites like Facebook and Instagram
AZJonnie
Saturday
#17
I didn't say that those glasses being called pervert glasses is due to the lawsuit. That nickname is
highplainsdem
Saturday
#18
That's what I took you to be implying with your whole argument about my "selective" reading of the contract
AZJonnie
Saturday
#19
I've been very clear about AI companies and AI bros being fundamentally dishonest. Their
highplainsdem
Saturday
#20