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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Helen Coffey

Hit on, then shamed: inside the world of men who use smart glasses to secretly film women

Mark Zuckerberg sports Meta’s new Ray-Bans, which come equipped with a tiny camera - (Reuters)

After a night out with friends, the last thing Kassy Zanjani expected was to go viral. Particularly given that she hadn’t, to her knowledge, been filmed. The 25-year-old social worker was finishing up the night in a fast-food restaurant in Vancouver, Canada, when she was approached by a man in sunglasses.

“He said something along the lines of, ‘I saw you from outside, and you’re so f***ing gorgeous I had to come say hi,’” she recalls. “Immediately, because he was wearing his sunglasses, I was kind of weirded out. I thought I would just politely reject him and say that I have a boyfriend.”

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