Meta smartglasses linked to secret filming and school harassment

techAug 19, 202639536

Reporters and social posts say teen boys have used Meta-branded smartglasses to secretly film and harass girls inside middle and high schools, with some videos posted online without subjects' consent. A vendor called Ghost Metas tells the Guardian he disables the glasses' recording LED light, saying he has modified about 100 pairs and can do one in 15 to 20 minutes, which makes covert recording undetectable. Meta sold roughly 7 million pairs in 2025, and high-profile endorsements and celebrity collaborations including Kylie Jenner's AI-branded version helped normalize the device. The glasses include an LED meant to indicate recording, but Meta states the device will not record if that light is blocked or obscured, a gap exploited by aftermarket modifiers and bad actors. Reports to the Guardian describe the glasses being used to film people in homes, at beaches, at bars and on campuses, and at least one source said an incident in her house left her feeling her children were endangered. Online commentators and parents have called for bans, stricter school rules and even for physically destroying offending devices, and schools are facing pressure to clarify whether the glasses should be treated like phones and confiscated.

Bruno Dias

@brunodias.dev

"going to buy my teen son pervert glasses" is a disqualifying choice as a human being. sorry, it's the firing squad for you buddy

924h ago

Aaron Blackshear

@aaronblackshear.bsky.social

If you buy your teenage son the pervert glasses we need to have a little in person chat

685h ago

Aaron Blackshear4

And you know it's a broccoli haired kid a superfluous Y in his name

Matt Gorecki1

My sons will never even think about pulling this shit.

Gabby HC

@scriblit.bsky.social

'Please stop calling our fun new toys which are routinely used to sexually harass children at school "Pervert Glasses"!'

454h ago

Greg Gabrielse 2

It is no shock that teen boys would do this. This is not excusing the behavior, it is a call for those who have boys to teach them to be respectful, and "boys will be boys" should be on the ash heap.

John MacLeod1

“Please stop calling me and people like me, who invent technology & algorithms to directly undermine people’s cognitive abilities, create CSAM, and feed society’s worst behaviours, ‘predatory’.”

James1

that’s not fair, not all perverts have got theirs yet

Cat Vincent (he/him, Useless Eater)1

Spray paint as an accessory?

daniel sieradski

@self.agency

what kind of asshole parent buys their asshole kid asshole pervert glasses

323h ago

Jen Rosenberg

@jendaby.bsky.social

Children shouldn't be given pervert glasses to begin with. So gross.

164h ago

Anomalous Jen

@anomalouslibrarian.bsky.social

This is why my Dad taught me to throw a punch. Snap those pervert glasses on their perverted fucking faces. IDC that theyre minors, they can still <redacted>. Teach your girls how to physically defend themselves.

163h ago

Shelly Penton

@plaidsilk.bsky.social

I can't imagine being a girl in middle school or high school right now. I mean, I was miserable from 6th to 11th grade, and we didn't even have Facebook, let alone pervert glasses and nudification/child-sexual-abuse tech.

194h ago

Lane Stellmaker

@hipcrimevocab.net

He has pervert glasses. I'm betting mommy and/or daddy have a significant amount of money and therefore Junior is sheltered from the consequences of his actions.

262h ago

Nick Pettigrew

@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social

If Meta's defence of Pervert Glasses is that they are helpful for disabled users (which I'll concede they may well be) then fine, make them like blue parking badges where only disabled people are allowed to use them and you get prosecuted for using them if you're not. Problem solved.

212h ago

Pookleblinky

@pookleblinky.bsky.social

The hot new trend is teenage girls carrying around ice cream scoops and showing them off to anyone wearing pervert glasses

193h ago

Harold Fjord1

Oh you have visual disability aid cameras on alreeady? Perfect

Understandable Outbursts1

Turning a melon baller into a combo fashion piece/ pervert glasses deterrent

Kory Bing

@korybing.bsky.social

“If you make glasses that run on the bullshit machine and record everything then people are gonna abuse it and make life worse” “no it is the future and super cool” “this just in, perverts are using the pervert glasses to be perverts, who could have foreseen this”

202h ago

Woodo

@woodo.bsky.social

Worth pointing out that 14 year old kids aren't buying $300 pervert glasses with their paper round money. Parents are enabling this behaviour by buying these evil things for their kids.

123h ago

Nathalie ✨ Ko-Fi Shop 4️⃣ Writers & Readers ❗

@ndxmedina.myatproto.social

To every woman and femme aligned person: if some creep tries it, take the glasses off their fucking face and break them in half. Get a friend to do it if you're scared. Shame them for their pervert glasses, make a big fucking stink, don't let up on schools about taking action. The time is now

103h ago

Terminally Frogline

@2frogline69.bsky.social

But what if c3 po wore the pervert glasses would he still be a pervert? What then luddites???

125h ago

bob barker 🍸

@insortediaboli.bsky.social

"i bought my kid pervert glasses" is a weird parenting style

143h ago

2 sources

theguardian.comDid someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure?ca.yahoo.comTeen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

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