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Chiara Castro

'We don't want another damaged generation' — Inside the grassroots campaign demanding a ban on smart glasses

A Ray-Ban eyewear store in Rome, Italy, on Friday, July 11, 2025.

As incidents of women being harassed by people wearing smart glasses were making headlines, London-based mum and tech founder Liz Hunter could not help but watch in horror as fashionable Ray-Ban Meta glasses multiplied across city streets.

She went online to sign a petition calling for a ban on the technology. To her disbelief, she couldn’t find a single petition that reflected the scale of the outrage she was seeing online. So she decided to take matters into her own hands.

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