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highplainsdem

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Fri Mar 6, 2026, 08:52 PM Friday

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 Meta’s 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 Meta’s unassuming-looking glasses.

Many have quickly embraced a term for the devices that’s presumably sending Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into paroxysms of fury: “pervert glasses.”

“I’m 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 Zuckerberg’s 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, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” 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.
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Why does every technological advance always end in people watching more porn and weird bathroom things? Scrivener7 Friday #1
You have to ask? Wounded Bear Friday #5
I suspect this is more about people who DON'T get sex than people who do. Scrivener7 Friday #7
Generally, yes, but not universally...nt Wounded Bear Friday #9
In a strange way this is backwards. Porn has driven many of the technological advances. unblock Friday #8
That is so perfect LearnedHand Friday #2
I saw quite a few people calling users of Meta glasses "glassholes" as well, copying the nickname highplainsdem Saturday #11
Kick SheltieLover Friday #3
Perverted control freak. blm Friday #4
Google glass/2014 cbabe Friday #6
This moniker does not make sense to me AZJonnie Friday #10
The perverts who record them in the first place i guess LearnedHand Saturday #12
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 certainly possible that it was recorded with consent, yes AZJonnie Saturday #14
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
So, now the lawsuit is back to being about third-party privacy complaints? AZJonnie Saturday #21
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