How Meta smart glasses are making women more suspicious of encounters in the street

Meta's Ray-Ban glasses on display in an electronic store on 10 August 2026 in Downtown Brooklyn in New York City - (Getty)

When Yamini* was approached by a stranger in the street as she was walking home on a June evening, her first thought was that she might be in danger.

“I was a little startled,” the 35-year-old professor living in Kolkata, India tells The Independent. Her name has been changed to protect her identity.