Meta glasses are a workplace menace

“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.

Women filmed in secret for social media content - then harassed online

So-called manfluencers wearing smart glasses approach women and then post videos to TikTok and Instagram.

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Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women

A new study shows how pickup artist influencers use smart glasses to create content, and the connection between covert recording and harm.

For Meta’s Smart Glasses, Access Is An Afterthought

Tech companies are using accessibility as a smoke screen to obfuscate the risks of AI wearables, writes Ariana Aboulafia.

Smart glasses controversy sidelines the benefits for disabled people | Letter

Letters: Guardian readers reflect on the ableism rife in the debate about Ray-Ban Meta eyewear, despite the life-changing difference they can make

Florida cops are quietly using Meta smart glasses

Privacy advocates warn the glasses could let cops record people without them noticing.

Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears

Meta says safeguards are in place to prevent surreptitious filming, but some UK venues now prohibit them from being worn at all

Meta just created a moderation nightmare for its smart glasses

A new ban on some Meta glasses content is more complicated than it seems

An Indian Trans Person’s Harrowing Encounter Fuels Backlash Against Meta AI ‘Pervert Glasses’

Karen Rebelo reports on incidents of abuse caused by use of Meta's wearable tech.

Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

Meta's camera-equipped "AI Glasses" are so divisive that some adopters are reportedly leaving their expensive smart glasses at home.

Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

Meta is rate-limiting on-device features.

Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses

Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

Meta's smart glasses companion app ships a complete, dormant face-recognition pipeline on a stock account.

Stella is the companion app for Meta's smart glasses. Inspecting version 273.0.0.21 of the Android build (com.facebook.stella), I found the entire computational and storage stack for on-device facial recognition: three face models, a local database schema, a cosine-similarity vector index dimensioned to match the models,

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

I Tried the Best Captioning Smart Glasses, and Only One Leads the Pack

Can’t hear what they’re saying? Now you can turn on the subtitles for real-life conversations.

Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex

Meta said the Kenyan workers didn't "meet our standards."