{"id":240778,"date":"2026-05-07T05:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/the-smartglasses-privacy-situation-just-keeps-getting-worse\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T05:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T09:45:08","slug":"the-smartglasses-privacy-situation-just-keeps-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/the-smartglasses-privacy-situation-just-keeps-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"The smartglasses privacy situation just keeps getting worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

The smartglasses privacy situation just keeps getting worse<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/the-smartglasses-privacy-situation-just-keeps-getting-worse\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-07 05:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n

A man using smartglasses recorded a conversation with a woman without her consent and posted it online, where it was viewed more than 40,000 times, but that\u2019s not the worst part of the latest problem affecting the tech.<\/p>\n

\n Pay to take the content down
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When the woman discovered the video and contacted the person who posted it, asking for it to be removed, the creator told her he would only do so if she paid. The email response was published by the BBC, but no figure was disclosed. <\/p>\n

The content is believed to be another in the genre of \u201cpick up artists,\u201d where a man approaches a woman with the intention of using the situation to provide dating advice to other men. <\/p>\n

The woman, referred to under the pseudonym of Alice in the BBC\u2019s report, said she felt humiliated by the video, and had not given her consent for it to be recorded or posted online. She also says she didn\u2019t even know she was being filmed in the first place, and she found out about the video when a friend sent it to her.<\/p>\n

In the email, the unnamed man said his content \u201cfully complies with the law and platform\u2019s guidelines,\u201d but if people preferred for content to be removed, he \u201cusually offers the option of removal as a paid service.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the BBC contacted him, he refused an interview but said he wanted his content to feature \u201clight-hearted, respectful interactions.\u201d He denied requiring payment for removal, and that…<\/p>\n

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