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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Nicole Wootton-Cane

‘A stranger stopped me in the street and asked me for my number. Then I found out he was secretly filming me’

Seconds after Isobel Thomason turned down a stranger on the street asking for her number, he approached her again with an unabashed confession: “I’m actually a content creator – and I’ve been filming this.”

At the same time he pointed to his glasses – frames that 22-year-old Ms Thomason said looked normal to her, but he then explained, were actually smart glasses made by social media giant Meta.

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