{"id":245368,"date":"2026-05-13T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/meta-smart-glasses-sell-fast-despite-privacy-fears\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:25:09","slug":"meta-smart-glasses-sell-fast-despite-privacy-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/meta-smart-glasses-sell-fast-despite-privacy-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta smart glasses sell fast despite privacy fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/region\/258356.html\">Meta smart glasses sell fast despite privacy fears<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/region\/258356.html\">https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/region\/258356.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 15:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.azernews.az\">www.azernews.az<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Alimat Aliyeva<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Concerns surrounding the new generation of \u201csmart glasses\u201d<br \/>\ncontinue to grow, even as major technology companies prepare to<br \/>\nsell millions of devices worldwide in the coming years,<br \/>\n<strong>AzerNEWS<\/strong> reports, citing foreign media.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, incidents involving Meta\u2019s Ray-Ban smart<br \/>\nglasses have sparked public debate over privacy and consent. Women<br \/>\nat beaches, shops, and public spaces have reported being secretly<br \/>\nfilmed by men using the AI-powered glasses, often during casual<br \/>\nconversations or unsolicited attempts at flirting. In many cases,<br \/>\nthe recordings later appeared online and attracted widespread<br \/>\nattention \u2014 including harassment and abusive comments.<\/p>\n<p>Several women said they only discovered the videos after they<br \/>\nwent viral on social media. Because filming in public spaces is<br \/>\ngenerally legal in many countries, victims often have limited legal<br \/>\noptions. One woman told the BBC that when she asked for a secretly<br \/>\nrecorded video of her to be removed, the person who uploaded it<br \/>\nallegedly responded that deletion was \u201ca paid service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s Ray-Ban smart glasses currently dominate the market,<br \/>\naccounting for an estimated 80% of global smart-glasses sales.<br \/>\nDeveloped in partnership with EssilorLuxottica, the glasses combine<br \/>\nthe familiar Ray-Ban design with discreet built-in technology,<br \/>\nincluding nearly invisible cameras, open-ear speakers, and<br \/>\nAI-powered features.<\/p>\n<p>Users can begin recording videos or taking photos with a simple<br \/>\ntouch on the frame, making the device much less noticeable than<br \/>\ntraditional cameras or smartphones. Critics argue that this<br \/>\nconvenience also creates serious ethical and privacy concerns, as<br \/>\npeople nearby may not realize they are being filmed.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy deepened after reports emerged that workers in<br \/>\nKenya, hired to review content captured through the glasses for AI<br \/>\ntraining purposes, were exposed to disturbing footage, including<br \/>\nexplicit and highly private material. The revelations led&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/region\/258356.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta smart glasses sell fast despite privacy fears https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/region\/258356.html Publish Date: 2026-05-13 15:26:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.azernews.az\/media\/2026\/05\/13\/a871b4b0-4e8f-11f1-ac78-2112837ce2aajpg.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245370,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245368\/revisions\/245370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}