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Today in Focus

Meta‘s AI glasses and the dawn of wearable tech

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Elle Hunt on her month wearing Meta’s smart glasses and the privacy concerns around the technology. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:08.8

Today, do matter smart glasses threaten our right to privacy?

0:13.5

Thank you. We were at the Brighton Marathon.

0:27.1

A hot day in April watching a friend run it.

0:30.2

My friend had made a sign and we were walking between different places on the marathon course

0:35.9

to catch our friend running past.

0:40.9

This is Kate. She lives in London and works in TV.

0:46.6

Brighton split on two levels, the seafront, and we were climbing the stairs between the two levels and heard someone speaking to us who was very chatty, friendly, and talking.

0:53.3

And I instantly was like, oh, this is an interaction

0:56.3

that hasn't been invited. I'm going to keep walking up these stairs. And my friend turned

1:01.1

back to chat to him and was more engaged in the conversation. And they chatted about her sign.

1:05.8

And then we got to top of the stairs and he said goodbye.

1:14.3

She didn't think much more of her interaction on the street that day.

1:18.8

Until we got sent a video from TikTok where a friend said,

1:25.2

oh look, you guys are on TikTok, which was a video filmed with his meta glasses,

1:29.3

which we hadn't noticed, hadn't noticed that he was wearing glasses at all.

1:35.0

I truly don't think I even knew or was conscious of what meta glasses were. I got sent it.

1:40.6

I looked. I felt weird about it, but I didn't really know why I felt weird about it at first.

1:44.9

I was like, okay, I've been filmed without knowing. On the surface, completely innocent, felt harmless, yeah. But after looking at that video and sort of being sent it by

1:50.2

a couple of people and sending it around to my friends, and we all sort of pondered over it and

1:55.4

went, actually, this is quite weird. It didn't even get many views. Like it was at the sort of thousand view mark,

2:02.6

but it had five comments. And most of the comments were, love what you're doing, mate. This is

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