Man Wearing Smart Glasses Secretly Records Woman, Demands Money to Delete Video From His Socials

"In the moment I just thought 'OK this guy is just trying to talk to me, to chat me up,' she said. I was hoping that he would leave me alone eventually but he did actually follow me. Alice only realized what happened when a friend sent her the video, which had racked up about 40,000 views. My initial reaction was complete shock, she said. He had no phone, he did not have a camera directly in my face."

"The alleged encounter grimly underscores the privacy and safety concerns that critics have raised over smart glasses. Since they appear like ordinary shades, they can be easily misused to film people - women especially, in practice -without their knowledge or consent. Often, there can be no real means of recourse. Earlier this year, another woman in the UK discovered she was in a viral video with over a million views that was filmed by a man's smart glasses."

"Alice's experience was no less harrowing. She told the BBC that when she contacted the man's account asking to remove the video of her, the man replied that his video "fully complies with the law" and that he wasn't "required to take it down." "That said, I understand that sometimes people may still prefer for certain content to be removed," he wrote in an email obtained by the BBC. "In such cases, I usually offer the option of removal as a paid service, since it means taking down content that I'"

A man used smart glasses to secretly film a woman in a London shopping center without her knowledge. She only realized what happened after a friend sent her the video, which had gained tens of thousands of views. She described feeling shocked because the man had no visible phone or camera pointed at her. Critics say smart glasses can be misused to record people, especially women, because the devices look like ordinary eyewear. In another case, police reportedly said filming in public was not illegal. When the woman contacted the man to remove the video, he claimed it complied with the law and offered removal only as a paid service.

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