{"id":14271,"date":"2026-08-07T12:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14271"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:01:41","slug":"flock-on-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/07\/flock-on-your-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Flock On Your Face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/08\/11\/meta-smart-glasses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from The Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Pervert glasses\u2019: Backlash against Meta\u2019s smart glasses grows<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/o\/2IjmT\/https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/queenie-wong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queenie Wong<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/2IjmT\/f87f0fd7c1d9d2fe061af748643eecea01dad432.webp\" alt=\"Meta Lab in West Hollywood, where visitors can try and buy Meta wearables. \"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>(Myung J. Chun\/Los Angeles Times)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta wants its smart glasses to be a big hit, but the high-tech specs have also turned into a liability, as some are calling the gadget \u201cpervert glasses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The social media giant dominates the market for smart glasses, which allow people to capture photos and videos, listen to music, take phone calls and ask questions to an artificial intelligence assistant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some people are using the glasses \u2014 which look like a pair of regular spectacles \u2014 to record people without their knowledge and publish the videos on social media.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The users secretly videotape and share what happens when they try to pick up women. Now, a growing number of people are worried they could be covertly recorded at the gym or even during sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/08\/11\/meta-smart-glasses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Chicago Tribune<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Chicago Tribune \u2018Pervert glasses\u2019: Backlash against Meta\u2019s smart glasses grows By\u00a0Queenie Wong Meta wants its smart glasses to be a big hit, but the high-tech specs have also turned into a liability, as some are calling the gadget \u201cpervert glasses.\u201d The social media giant dominates the market for smart glasses, which allow people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14272,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14271\/revisions\/14272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}