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Teen Boys Use Meta Ray-Bans to Film Girls in US Schools

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  • Futurism found teen boys wearing Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in middle and high schools to covertly film girls, then posting the clips to TikTok and Instagram.
  • One prolific poster amassed more than 64,000 combined followers across the two platforms, with dozens of videos of girls asking to be left alone.
  • Andy Liddell of the EdTech Law Center told Futurism that 'school is the last place that these glasses belong,' warning state recording laws can carry felony charges.

Teen boys are wearing Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in middle and high school hallways, cafeterias and classrooms to film girls without their knowledge, then uploading the clips to TikTok and Instagram. Futurism reporter Maggie Harrison Dupré found one prolific account with more than 64,000 combined followers across the two platforms.

The school videos borrow the format of adult "rizzcam" and "POV" clips, in which self-styled pickup artists use the glasses to record themselves pestering women at malls, on boardwalks, or at work. In one school clip, a boy follows a girl through hallway doors, asking again and again for her social media handles. In another, a girl warns the wearer, "I'm about to break those glasses for real." A third shows a student slipping his phone into a classroom confiscation pouch while still wearing the glasses on his face.

Andy Liddell, who runs the EdTech Law Center, told Futurism that "using smart glasses to film at school is a terrible idea," and that in states with strict recording consent laws the practice "can carry very steep penalties, including felony charges." His conclusion: "Really, school is the last place that these glasses belong."

Meta's response is that the glasses ship with "a built-in capture LED light to let people know when a photo or video is taken" and that the light "can't be turned off." Users can, of course, cover or damage it. The company says it has removed flagged videos; school districts have started banning smart glasses from classrooms outright.

This is the third Meta smart-glasses story we've logged in about a week, after ICE barred its agents from wearing them on duty and England and Wales courts banned them from courtrooms. The same week, Meta ran ads for an app that nudified female politicians.

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Original headline: Futurism: Teen Boys Use Meta AI Ray-Bans to Record and Harass Girls at Middle and High Schools