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Chiara Castro

Forget Wetherspoons — patchwork bans won't fix the Meta glasses' privacy crisis, so what comes next?

Mark Zuckerberg wearing a pair of Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 17, 2025, plus the Leave No Trace logo on top left.

Pubs, restaurants, theatres, private clubs, and courtrooms — these are the venues where Meta’s nicknamed "pervert glasses" have already been banned across the UK. But could a wider blockade be soon to follow?

First landing on the British market in October 2023, the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have been facing a growing backlash across the country. The force behind it isn't tech skepticism, but a privacy crisis driven by non-consensual public recording, voyeurism, and third-party data processing.

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