--- title: We laughed off the ‘glassholes’ – this time it’s serious description: Smart glasses with hidden cameras are proliferating rapidly, led by Meta's Ray-Ban partnership with millions of units sold. Unlike Google Glass, which was... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/we-laughed-off-the-glassholes-this-time-it-s-serious-ptybxcvx1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: We laughed off the ‘glassholes’ – this time it’s serious | daily.dev og:description: Smart glasses with hidden cameras are proliferating rapidly, led by Meta's Ray-Ban partnership with millions of units sold. Unlike Google Glass, which was... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/we-laughed-off-the-glassholes-this-time-it-s-serious-ptybxcvx1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pTyBXcVX1.png og:image:alt: We laughed off the ‘glassholes’ – this time it’s serious og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # We laughed off the ‘glassholes’ – this time it’s serious **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Smart glasses with hidden cameras are proliferating rapidly, led by Meta's Ray-Ban partnership with millions of units sold. Unlike Google Glass, which was visibly identifiable, today's devices are indistinguishable from ordinary eyewear. The LED recording indicator — the primary safeguard — has been routinely defeated, prompting Meta to release firmware disabling cameras when the light is tampered with. A Harvard student project demonstrated real-time facial recognition and doxing of strangers using off-the-shelf glasses. Meta internally tested its own facial recognition feature ('Name Tag') before quietly removing the code after pressure from 75 civil liberties organizations. Documented abuses include covert filming of women in gyms and on beaches, a dating coach arrested in Spain, and a Kenyan subcontractor reviewing intimate footage captured inadvertently by AI visual search. The author argues that every benefit accrues to the wearer while privacy costs are borne by bystanders, and that the burden of proof should rest with manufacturers, not the public being filmed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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