Jennifer O'Connell

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The Women's Podcast · The rise of 'pervert glasses' / Making sense of Matrescence · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

There's been a number of pieces about this recently.

My attention was first drawn to, I mean, to be honest with you, I would have thought that this was in the realm of like, nobody's got to wear these things and this doesn't really happen and this can't.

But unfortunately, you know, there's no, I think there's no kind of impulse that's too dark for somebody on the internet to exploit.

But it first kind of came to my attention around a month ago when Lorcan Tygmurphy.

Yes.

who was, in July, he was jailed for murdering a US nurse, Mackenzie Michalaski, in Hungary in 2024.

And it emerges a detail in his trial that he had been trying to pick up women in various European cities, including in Dublin, and that he had been using a spy pen.

to covertly record his attempts just as, so he, 16 Irish women or 16 women in Dublin, we don't know what nationality they were, were recorded by him without their knowledge as he kind of approached him and tried to pick him up.

And it turns out that of course there are places on the internet where men go and they share this covertly recorded footage of sometimes their own partners, sometimes intimate footage of their partners, sometimes footage of drugged women and then sometimes they share footage that they've recorded of themselves trying to pick women up

So we've run a number of pieces on this since that.

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre told the Irish Times that it's been concerned for some time with the increasing use of hidden cameras and smart glasses and pen cameras and other covert recording devices that secretly film girls and women.

And Meta has sold an estimated 10 million pairs of its, I think we'll just call them perfect glasses, will we?

I think so.

Yeah.

So Ciara O'Brien wrote a great piece this week about, you know, this is part of an overall pattern of women having to bear the brunt of the

And I mean, some of

know about, like the algorithms that keep kind of churning out misogynistic

Keir even writes about, I

I actually have one of these upstairs in my bag, but the Apple AirTags that tell you if you've left your keys behind, apparently sometimes those are bought by coercively controlling partners and hidden

partner's clothing or in their car so that they can track their movements.

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