Meta's smartglasses just got cancelled by the internet
Meta's camera-equipped smartglasses, hyped hard after a Kylie Jenner collab, are now being called "pervert glasses" online after a wave of backlash over covert filming. Influencers who promoted them, including one with 1.6 million followers, have publicly apologised after self-styled "pickup artists" used the specs to secretly film and mock women in public. Even innocent videos, like a guy making coffee at the Tour de France, are getting flooded with "PERV" comments. What started as Meta's cool new gadget is quickly becoming a symbol of nonconsensual surveillance, and the backlash shows no sign of slowing.
Nothing says "future of tech" like a product whose top feature is stealth filming strangers.