Kirsty Major

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Today in Focus · Could Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ be banned across the UK? – The Latest · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

Um so I took it out around King's Cross.

And it was kind of freaky though because you you could see on the app when it had notified you that there were glasses around, but it was hard to see who was wearing them.

So you're sort of looking around, like looking for someone in glasses, but you can't see them.

And it just gives you this sense of like uneasiness and being surveilled.

And even then the app says don't approach anyone.

Because y you know, you could be harassing them.

So really it's it's quite difficult to know what to do.

I mean, I actually think this is the point where regulators need to step in.

They need to make them really obvious.

They need to be like a certain colour.

They need not to be seamless.

You need to be able to spot them in the wild really easily.

So that is probably an issue that I think needs to be taken up.

They need to like neon green, flashing, beeping.

So it will point again and again to the fact that the glasses light up and then in its guidelines it says that the glasses shouldn't be used for harassment, infringing on privacy, or for filming sensitive content.

But I think what's interesting is their biggest intervention has been to get Kylie Jenner involved.

So, you know, these smart glasses have been around for a while, there've been concerns around for a while, and then they're like, Okay, actually we need to

maybe convince women not to be afraid of surveillance but to embrace it.

Um and it's it's really interesting, even the advertising has Kylie Jenner in these, you know, quite chic glasses and they're pixelated on the advert, sort of reminiscent of like nudity.

They're sort of evoking the fact that

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