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Ray-Ban Meta glasses used to film and harass retail workers for social media content
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Workers at Target and other public-facing jobs report being recorded without consent by customers wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses, with footage posted to Instagram and TikTok as prank content.
Smart glasses create a surveillance risk that public-facing employees cannot easily escape, since resisting recording risks their livelihood. Most workplaces lack policies for the devices, and platform enforcement appears reactive rather than preventive.
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A Target employee was filmed by Meta glasses wearers who repeatedly asked for prices as a prank, with the resulting video reaching hundreds of thousands of views on Instagram and TikTok.
Meta has sold millions of pairs of its AI-powered smart glasses, and the recording feature has drawn backlash from workers who cannot tell when or what is being filmed.
Instagram removed the offending account only after The Verge asked about it, despite the platform's stated policy against this type of content.
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