Here Come the Creeps: Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Dudebro Stalking Women at USF, Posting Videos to Social Media

"After Facebook/Meta blew a staggering $70 billion developing VR goggles that very few people ever wanted, the company may actually have a modest hit consumer product with their newer Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses. These glasses can record video and audio on command, and they largely resemble a normal pair of Ray-Bans, so people in the general public are unlikely to know that they are being recorded or surveilled."

"This calls to mind the infamous Google Glass controversies of 2013-14, where the gadget enthusiasts who earned the nickname "Glassholes" were rather notoriously recording people without their consent at bars and even recording videos of women breastfeeding. And sure enough, the Ray-Ban Meta glasses are stirring up very similar hornet's nests now that these $300-$500 face computers are discrete enough that people can't tell when someone's actually recording them."

"KRON4 reports that the University of San Francisco Office of Public Safety had to send students a campuswide alert this week over some creeper who's been recording young women without their consent, and then posting the videos publicly to social media. Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions, the USF Office of Public said in an announcement."

Meta's Ray-Ban smartglasses can record video and audio on command while resembling normal sunglasses, making recordings difficult for bystanders to detect. An individual wearing these glasses reportedly approached and harassed women on the University of San Francisco campus, recording interactions without consent and posting videos publicly to social media. The USF Office of Public Safety issued a campuswide alert after multiple community members reported unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions from the individual. Safety reports indicate the content may be posted under the account name pickuplines.pov on Instagram and possibly TikTok. An Instagram account named pickuplines.pov is publicly findable; a TikTok account was not located.

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