Meta Smart Glasses Spark Privacy Alarm After Secretly Filmed Woman's Video Tops 200,000 Views
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Updated · CBS New York · Aug 21
Meta Smart Glasses Spark Privacy Alarm After Secretly Filmed Woman's Video Tops 200,000 Views
3 articles · Updated · CBS New York · Aug 21
Summary
Toluwa Omitowoju said she learned she had been filmed by a man wearing AI smart glasses only after the video spread across social media and drew more than 200,000 views.
The clip fit a growing wave of prank pickup-line posts in which creators use wearable tech to record strangers—often women—without consent, then upload the footage, sometimes from burner accounts.
Meta says Instagram is removing videos that harass people or invade privacy, and the company says Ray-Ban Meta glasses use a recording LED and tamper detection to signal filming.
CBS News found the glasses still appeared to record when the light was covered after recording had started, while Meta said the safeguard is designed to block capture only if obstruction is detected before recording.
The episode adds to scrutiny already heightened by a Texas investigation and by one-party consent laws in most states, which can leave people little practical chance to refuse being recorded.