Hey Meta – stop creeps filming women

Imagine you’re sitting on a train, working out at the gym or sitting in a café with your book – and you have no idea that someone is filming you. 

Meta’s “pervert glasses” look just like an ordinary pair of glasses, but there’s a camera installed. Mark Zuckerberg says you can tell when they’re recording because a light comes on. But the light is so easy to cover up that you might never know you’ve been filmed. 

And this is just the start. The New York Times discovered Meta has been working on a project to hook their glasses up to an AI-powered database so that wearers can instantly identify people in the street and get hold of their personal data. Your name. Your social media. Your friends. Where you like to hang out.

For women, it’s scary to think a creep might be filming you in secret. And for survivors of stalking and domestic abuse it’s dangerous. But we should all be able to live our lives without the threat of someone filming us, identifying us and tracking our every move.

That’s what Zuckerberg demands for himself. This is the man who tapes over the camera on his laptop. The man who spent more than $30m buying up houses next to his San Francisco home.

We’ve got to stop Zuckerberg making money from tech that puts us in danger. We need laws that keep pace with Silicon Valley and protect us from creeps.

We can’t let constant surveillance become the new normal.

Add your name and tell Zuckerberg to put women’s safety first.