"Joziah was tabling on campus for his peer mentor job at the end of last semester at Florida State University when he noticed something strange happening across the quad: A trio of men, wearing Meta AI glasses, were stopping every young woman who passed by and asking them for their social media contacts."
"He posted a video of the incident on his TikTok, which quickly garnered 200,000 views. Women who had seen the same event unfold flocked to the comments to share their frustration with the situation. "Literally I was one of their victims," one user said. Another wrote, "They were so rude to ppl asking them what they were doing too.""
"This isn't the first time that Joziah, who asked to have his last name withheld to protect his identity, has had an uncomfortable encounter with the new wearable recording devices. During a football game, a stranger secretly recorded a video of his friend and posted it online, to her shock. When Joziah returned to his hometown over winter break, he went out with some female friends, during which they were recorded on Meta AI glasses and posted on social media without their consent. They learned about it after the clip, a POV video of the creator approaching Joziah's friends at a bar, went viral."
Three men wearing Meta AI glasses approached women on a Florida State University quad and asked for their social media contacts. A student filmed the encounter and uploaded it to TikTok, where the clip received roughly 200,000 views. Women who saw or experienced the interactions posted comments describing frustration, rudeness, and fear. Separate incidents included a secretly recorded video at a football game and a viral POV clip of friends being recorded and posted without permission. The recordings and subsequent public posting created unease and raised concerns about consent, privacy, and the misuse of wearable recording devices.
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