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title: "Meta's smart glasses are selling by the million, but the people being secretly filmed can't do a thing"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/meta-s-smart-glasses-are-selling-by-the-million-but-the-people-being-secretly-filmed-can-t-do-a-thi-w1f4h4gal
source_url: https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-smart-glasses-privacy-crisis-apple-google-snap
type: article
source: "The Next Web"
published: 2026-05-14T16:32:41.703Z
updated: 2026-05-14T16:33:05.236Z
tags: ["privacy", "gpu"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Meta's smart glasses are selling by the million, but the people being secretly filmed can't do a thing

**[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses have sold 7 million pairs and hold 82% of the smart glasses market, but a serious privacy crisis is mounting. Women are being secretly filmed in public with little legal recourse, Kenyan data workers were exposed to graphic footage captured by the glasses, and two US lawsuits allege Meta misled consumers about privacy protections. Meta deflects responsibility to individual users while regulators in the UK and Kenya investigate. Meanwhile, Apple, Google, and Snap are all preparing competing smart glasses with cameras, meaning the privacy tension will only grow as the category expands.

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