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[–] 118 points 2 weeks ago (26 children)

In my eyes anyone wearing one of these is a pervert. I simply don't see who else could be the audience for a purposefully discreet camera built into a pair of glasses. Even Google's attempt at glasses were more overt that these. I'd say Meta is shameful, but that's not exactly a shocker to anyone at this point.

Edit: Seen a few suggestions, but my counterpoint to all of them is - you don't need the camera to discreet fir any of these purposes. You'd only need it to be discreet if you didn't want people to realise you were filming, which just seems aimed towards perverts in my mind.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    I would have loved glasses that could detect advertising with a camera and block it out so I don't see it, but instead we got AI nudes and stalking.

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  • [–] 37 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    And probably even more ads sent directly to your eyeballs. If they're not there yet they're already on the roadmap.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 weeks ago

    I remember seeing a video of a blind woman using them, in combination with some earbuds, so she could get her surroundings described to her, as well as have objects she picked up described. But you're right, glasses with discreet cameras on them, aren't necessary for a situation like that - Something more overt would be fine for that use case.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    I would love overt google glass style glasses that are obvious as a solution for a dashcam like system for when i am driving, or tracking where I left mg keys etc. But as you say, the discreet camera is for perverts.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago

    It's probably the clearest if a built-in camera is not allowed for glasses and the camera is an external unit they have to clip on. Functional the same, but socially making it clear you're filming.

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    [–] 84 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

    Hoooold up just a minute. How much do these glasses cost? Like hundreds right? What kind of teen boy has that much money to burn? I sure as fuck didn't, and I worked. Their parents bought them, and these are kids, so it's 100% blame on the parents here.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Even if the kids bought them it is still the parent’s responsibility to keep their kid from being an obnoxious pervert.

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    [–] 62 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

    I guarantee most of these schools protect the bullies and punish the victims. Like if a girl being harassed broke the glasses, she would get expelled. The world is the way it is because people enable and worship bullies across the board.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    This. My friend in HS went to guidance multiple times to complain about being bullied by another classmate. After the 2nd or 3rd time requesting thy switch his class, they decided to resolve the issue by forcing them to be partners for an assignment in class. He complained again, and was told to deal with it. One day my friend finally cracked and broke the bully's nose because he had enough and clearly the school was only willing to make this worse, so they called the police on my friend. It's pretty insane how some things get dealt with sometimes.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

    Couple this w/ the AI nudification sites and this is gonna be insane. Teen boys don't think big picture...

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    [–] 45 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Stop blaming the kids, it’s the corporation’s fault. Title should be Meta glasses are recording and enabling harassment of underaged school children

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  • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago

    Yeah. The kids are just the last part of the chain of failure here. Why is Meta producing such a thing? Why the fuck are parents buying several hundred dollars worth of spy glasses for their children and sending them to school with them without any supervision? And what the fuck is the school doing here? The first report of someone harassing other pupils with such a device should be reason to ban them and take hard discipline measures against the harrasser

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    [–] 44 points 2 weeks ago

    Teen Boys Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in Very Public and Easily Tracable Ways and Still No One is Stopping Them

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  • [–] 36 points 2 weeks ago

    From the opening part of the article, the problem is not just the glasses. The glasses are definitely an issue that needs to be sorted out society wide, but there is a problem with how these boys are raised. Badly raised boys have always been an issue but now they are being raised by manosphere incel influencers. The glasses just let them record their harassment to post for clout and to draw others into their bullying.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 weeks ago

    By there not being enough consequences for these boys, not only are you making more boys like this, but not doing those boys any favours either. No one mentally healthy is going to want to be with that kind of boy.

    Weak parents. Weak schools. Weak government. Failing everyone.

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    People are being disgusting, using technology that was designed to be stealthy on purpose by others for disgusting reasons (to normalize allowing ever greater data collection by tech companies - no surprise the privacy protections are trivially easy to defeat), and are posting videos online for a reason - that they get satisfaction from it.

    I guess I don’t care if this makes me sound old or callous, but we need to bully these people. Make the people who post and share these videos embarrassed. Tell them they look like stupid losers who can’t get dates or talk to people. Make them feel bad for not being kind and socially connecting with others. Give them no community or understanding until they stop breaking the social contract.

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    [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Can someone explain why this isn't actually a solution to an old problem? We used to have issues with various forms of harassment that were not addressed because they relied on unreliable testimony. Now we actually have people creating hard evidence of their actions.

    The behaviors described in this article are banned in every school I or my children have ever attended. How difficult would it be for the parents of any of these victims to hire a lawyer to absolutely wipe the floor with these people? Don't these videos basically put the perpetrators heads on silver platters?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Crime usually comes before punishment. Right now the system is working it's way into figuring out how to deal with this new social dynamic. Like you, I think it's pretty straightforward. We won't solve the core reason for the bullying dynamics though. I think humans that adhere to gendered thinking will be behind on that for a good long while yet.

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    [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago

    "Hey everyone, this asshole is wearing smart glasses and recording us all. Question is: are they going to remove them right now, or are we?"

    https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/nearby-glasses-new-app-alerts-you-wearing-smart-glasses-surveillance-meta-snap-bluetooth/

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses

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  • [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Here they're not even allowing students to carry mobile phones inside of schools. How is this even allowed?

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    [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    It's ok, their parents will take care of the situation.

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    [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

    Why is the minimum age not 18?

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    [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yeah no shit letting people go around with concealed recording equipment is resulting in problems. Especially in a fucking school!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    So the same bullying that always happens is now visible and that's the core problem people see. The glasses, not the bullies wearing them or the bullying recorded. Watch teachers and schools fight the recording, that make evidence fall right into their laps, so they can go back to ignoring bullying in their schools and then act shocked when serious fights, or worse happen.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (6 children)

    Teen Boys Men of all ages Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize sexually harass Girls women of all ages at High Schools and Middle Schools everywhere.

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    [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    these boys need their mother's to whoop their asses and their dads to whip them into shape.

    "oh boys will be boys"

    no. boys will be whatever you let them be, and if you let them be perverted pieces of shit they grow up to be perverted pieces of shit.

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