DuckDuckGo’s new smart glasses come with zero AI and 100% shade
Smart glasses have quietly morphed into tiny surveillance cameras that people willingly wear on their faces. Every other week, a new pair promises to record video, listen to conversations, and feed it to an AI model somewhere in the cloud. They are causing such havoc that they have earned a new name: “pervert glasses.” Not only are these glasses a privacy nightmare for people being recorded but also for people using them.
- ▪Smart glasses have quietly morphed into tiny surveillance cameras that people willingly wear on their faces.
- ▪Every other week, a new pair promises to record video, listen to conversations, and feed it to an AI model somewhere in the cloud.
- ▪They are causing such havoc that they have earned a new name: “pervert glasses.” Not only are these glasses a privacy nightmare for people being recorded but also for people using them.
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| Publication time | Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:29:03 +0000 |
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Smart glasses have quietly morphed into tiny surveillance cameras that people willingly wear on their faces. Every other week, a new pair promises to record video, listen to conversations, and feed it to an AI model somewhere in the cloud. They are causing such havoc that they have earned a new name: “pervert glasses.” Not only are these glasses a privacy nightmare for people being recorded but also for people using them. A recent investigation by Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet showed that Meta Ray-Ban glasses were uploading intimate and private recordings for training its AI. No camera. No AI. Just Normal Sunglasses.From DuckDuckGo x @Knockaround.(Yes, these are actually real.
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