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Smart Glasses and Privacy: Wearable Surveillance and Disclosure Issues

If you scroll through any popular social media app, you've probably seen the format: a man approaches a woman in public (at a shop, on a beach, in an airport lounge) and tries to chat her up, flirt, "rizz her up,” as the kids say. The footage is shot from his perspective, often at close range, and it looks casual, almost candid. What the women in these videos frequently don't know is that they're being recorded at all. The camera isn't a phone held at arm's length; it's a pair of smart glasses that look like ordinary eyewear.
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