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…
And they’ll complain loudly when they end up on tea for women or similar sites in the blacklist section.
These are children we’re talking about, they lack the ability for critical thinking.
And yet if one gets pregnant, parenthood is forced upon them
@madeindex I’m shocked that someone who made his fortune scaling up a website he made to rate the looks of female students at Harvard could come up with something creepers would use to harass women and girls.
Stop blaming the kids, it’s the corporation’s fault. Title should be Meta glasses are recording and enabling harassment of underaged school children
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
The glasses shouldn’t exist but what parents are buying these for their kids?! Blame the parents too.
supplier first then the chain…everyone is blamed
These kids absolutely know it’s wrong. Stop enabling bullies. The kids should NOT get a pass for this just because some corporation did something wrong first.
And a lot of enabling parents.
10000000%
I blame the parents
Yeah who the hell is buying creeper glasses for kids to wear at schools. This is messed up.
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.
Maybe we can get our hands on some of those Volvo lidar modules to combat all these cameras around us? “Your assumed right to record me doesn’t overrule my right to make high resolution 3D scans of everywhere I go.”
Are the glasses lens telephoto?
Those are the only ones the article says get damaged by the lidar
Teen Boys Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in Very Public and Easily Tracable Ways and Still No One is Stopping Them
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.
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.
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.
And probably even more ads sent directly to your eyeballs. If they’re not there yet they’re already on the roadmap.
What matters is who controls the tech, not just the capabilities.
Aww man you just made me realise that you could combine A.I. image generation with augmented reality to make everyone nude in real time. What a fucked up world we live in. I’m sure someone is already working on a program like this
Not just nude, but any race, any age, any species. Or, make some or all people disappear from view. Not just people but everything around you will look however you want it to (or can afford to pay someone else to make it so.) Clothes will become simple, disposable leotards with markings that make it easy for AR to overlay any style of “clothes”. We’ll broadcast our selection to the surrounding goggles, and they can either show that, or whatever they want. Of course sound is part of it too, so your Puerto Rican “friend” can look like and sound like Princess Diana to you.
But wait, there’s more. Let’s say you’re walking down a busy street and your boss is out that day too. He’ll be able to spot you from blocks away, and even through buildings, tracking your location and following you until he “happens to bump into you.” A feature reserved for certain “elites” and “officials” in society. Whatever information you have available about the people around you will appear floating around them, like a health bar. You think we have no privacy now, wait till everyone knows the basics about you and can pay to know even more, and have it appear above your head and whispered in their ear.
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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.
So much potential. Face lookup of contacts so I get reminded of people’s names. Lyrics to any detected song so I can sing along. Virtual post-it note reminders in 3D space. Alerts or navigation while walking. Virtual monitors put on any surface.
But humans are too hung up on sex, so it’s not going to happen.Face lookup of contacts so I get reminded of people’s names.
Okay, I stop reading here. That’s fucking insane.
what’s wrong with such a fully local application?
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.
In my eyes anyone wearing one of these is a pervert
fucking blind perverts /s
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/the-life-changing-magic-of-wearing-smartglasses
As the chief executive of a charity supporting people with a visual impairment, however, I would like to emphasise the point touched upon in your article: how transformative this technology is already proving for blind people.
I don’t understand how these are fundamentally different from the phone cameras that everyone points at everyone else already. holding a phone up isn’t exactly conspicuous at this point.
schools should probably ban them for the case above, but schools should probably ban phones as well. in the US at least there’s so expectation of privacy anywhere public and smart glasses are a tiny fraction of the doorbell cameras, security cameras, etc that are everywhere
it feels like we’re approaching a circlejerk level of being against smart glasses in general, which do have a ton of interesting use cases that aren’t recording related (but still require a camera for position tracking etc). the “pervert glasses” position is intentionally obtuse
Phones and glasses can nudify girls and women in real time. Pervert glasses is not an exaggeration.
i bet ur typing this on a pervert phone right now. i hear ur pervert computer does the same thing but faster. we should ban computers. this is not an exaggeration.
Glad we are in agreement.
phone cameras can already do that, and the concealment was doable with a raspberry pi zero and its camera
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.
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.
Countless stories like this :(
Schools don’t care about bullying or sexual harassment as long as it doesn’t look bad on them. If it can be swept under the rug, they will ignore it.
At least that is my experience from schools in the UK.
Same in the US
For parents in America, we have an escalation path: school board, media, lawyer. Depending on the situation, the orders may change.
When the school make you feel like you are the one who did something wrong you are not going to tell your parents about it.
this is why advocacy groups are important
In a different video, the same boy films another upset girl approaching him with a metal stool in her hands. An adult intervenes before anyone is hurt.
Exactly, they always protect the bullies.
Humans suck at looking at things on a long timeline. “Sticks and stones”. You don’t usually see the effects of years of bullying until adulthood. Or at least not immediately. A TBI, that’ll get you fucking sued. Emotional trauma? What’s that?
Fuck they still try to blame school shootings on videogames and now tiktok.
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.
Even if the kids bought them it is still the parent’s responsibility to keep their kid from being an obnoxious pervert.
That’s what really sucks about this.
There’s no institutional backlash. (At least not yet. That could change.)
We’re depending on parents who park these little shits in front of screens and expect to be left alone while their kids are radicalized.
The alternative is having the rich parents be responsible for the children they breed and that will never happen so suck it up poors
Rich kids. The worst type as they’re also the least likely to get meaningfully punished.
I had thousands as a teenager from around 15 years old working part time evening and weekends at barely above minimum wage.
When you have no expenses from living at home, you can save everything (and in my case blow it all on electronics lol)
Ok, middle school then
Parents with more money than sense
It’s not much different than a kid asking for a playstation or iphone for Christmas
It is because you dont use your playstation to harass girls at school
they can already use their phone for that
Those are also banned in class, or they should be, every school has different policies of course.
When I was 16 and started working, I quickly had enough money saved from working minimum wage, part time, to buy myself a car. It’s not impossible.
Also, these may be kids/young adults, but they should all know right from wrong. Blame is absolutely on the students who use these too.
just grab a pair of cheap Clark Kents. girls will avoid you.
use a james bond pen if you only want pictures.
Why is the minimum age not 18?
Creeps exist above 18 years old too…
Yes but starting with an age limitation is a start on these damn things.
in what world is age restricting a relatively normal camera a reasonable decision?
How the fuck is this a “relatively normal” camera, or ANY kind of “normal”? People like you are the reason these companies get away with shit like this.
because there isn’t anything particularly special about it other thsn it being a mass market product
creep detected
When it breaks laws. My area has two-party consent laws, so recording someone, whether audio or video, without their explicit consent is against the law. Children are often not held to the fullest extent of the law, and if they cannot be held responsible, then they shouldn’t have access to such devices until they can be.
I’m not naive to think that these devices will just go away or that the genie can go back into the bottle. But that is where regulation must act to protect people’s privacy rights.
what ia the difference between this and a phone taped inside of a shirt?
perhaps it’s time to jump back to reddit.
they’ll tolerate your feigned stupidity over there.
so if perverts are not allowed on school property and it is considered private space for that reason…
so who is enforcing that law?
the fuck happened to this society? everyone just seems to be victims all the time. no doers.
Sit them in a dunce corner full of mirrors until the battery runs out.
