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Students at multiple schools are using Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses to film classmates and staff without consent. Teachers report the devices are fueling bullying and creating serious privacy and consent violations.
Students at multiple schools are using Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses to film classmates and staff without consent. Teachers report the devices are fueling bullying and creating serious privacy and consent violations. The technology made covert recording trivially easy.
These glasses were designed and marketed as a consumer product. They have a camera built in, and they look like regular eyeglasses. Once teenagers got them, they immediately started using them as surveillance tools against peers. The problem isn't that bad actors found an unintended use—it's that the intended use enables harassment at scale. When a technology is this easy to weaponize in a school setting, schools end up having to ban the technology itself.
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