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The public blowback to Meta’s contentious smart glasses continues to grow.
The popular camera-equipped accessories, which have earned the pejorative nickname of “pervert glasses,” are systematically being abused by men to harass women in public .
It’s become such a contentious issue that a German nonprofit filed a criminal complaint over privacy concerns. Just this week, England and Wales banned the glasses from courts.
In a particularly egregious example of the kind of harassment the glasses are enabling, a user who goes by Mark filmed himself accosting British comedian Diane Morgan, widely known as the fictional documentarian Philomena Cunk, during a TV shoot on Hollywood’s iconic Walk of Fame.
“Excuse me, can I get your phone number,” Mark asks a taken-aback Morgan in a video titled “rizzing on cunk,” which was originally uploaded to TikTok in May and which has since accumulated over one million views. His Instagram account appears to have been taken down.
“I saw the cameras on you,” Mark says, adding that he “thought you were gorgeous.”
As soon as a crew member politely asked if they could “get some space,” the glasses wearer exploded in a fit of rage.
“Don’t f***ing touch me or we’re gonna have a problem, OK?” he retorted.
“We’re working, we’re in the middle of a shot,” another clearly exasperated crew member told him. “This is what we all do for a living.”
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