{"id":24002,"date":"2026-07-19T07:37:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/smart-glasses-are-deeply-creepy-why-are-celebrities-like-kylie-jenner-endorsing-them\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T07:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:37:30","slug":"smart-glasses-are-deeply-creepy-why-are-celebrities-like-kylie-jenner-endorsing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/smart-glasses-are-deeply-creepy-why-are-celebrities-like-kylie-jenner-endorsing-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart glasses are deeply creepy. Why are celebrities like Kylie Jenner endorsing them?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta touts safety features \u2013 but for women, the dangers of these recording devices are obvious<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if every time you left the house, you couldn\u2019t be sure that the stranger you met at a bar \u2013 or even the person walking by you in the street \u2013 wasn\u2019t secretly recording you. It sounds like something out of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2019\/jun\/06\/every-episode-of-black-mirror-ranked-charlie-brooker\">Black Mirror<\/a> episode, but let\u2019s face it, the era of wearable technology is fully upon us as everyday accessories have been developed to help track health and fitness data, receive smartphone notifications, and provide hands-free accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>So when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/meta\">Meta<\/a> announced their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/17\/meta-ray-ban-smart-glasses\">AI glasses<\/a> a few years ago, it wasn\u2019t too surprising that one of the biggest (and most embattled) tech companies on earth had begun cashing in on our obsession with watching others. And their AI glasses have already raised serious concerns over privacy, personal safety and even our sense of agency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jul\/17\/ai-meta-smart-glasses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7e2839b6d1b23bf2df92174dbe53c7d34fca0c3f\/424_0_4240_3392\/master\/4240.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=38c005833a52d10ac3207f8d4b45800a\" title=\"Smart glasses are deeply creepy. Why are celebrities like Kylie Jenner endorsing them?\" \/>Meta touts safety features \u2013 but for women, the dangers of these recording devices are obvious<br \/>\nImagine if every time you left the house, you couldn\u2019t be sure that the stranger you met at a bar \u2013 or even the person walking by you in the street \u2013 wasn\u2019t secretly recording you. It sounds like something out of a Black Mirror episode, but let\u2019s face it, the era of wearable technology is fully upon us as everyday accessories have been developed to help track health and fitness data, receive smartphone notifications, and provide hands-free accessibility.<br \/>\nSo when Meta announced their AI glasses a few years ago, it wasn\u2019t too surprising that one of the biggest (and most embattled) tech companies on earth had begun cashing in on our obsession with watching others. And their AI glasses have already raised serious concerns over privacy, personal safety and even our sense of agency. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta touts safety features \u2013 but for women, the dangers of these recording devices are obvious Imagine if every time you left the house, you couldn\u2019t be sure that the stranger you met at a bar \u2013 or even the person walking by you in the street \u2013 wasn\u2019t secretly recording you. It sounds like &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/smart-glasses-are-deeply-creepy-why-are-celebrities-like-kylie-jenner-endorsing-them\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smart glasses are deeply creepy. Why are celebrities like Kylie Jenner endorsing them?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}