Community privacy campaign · UK & Ireland
You can be filmed without your knowledge or consent. The law hasn't caught up, the public was never asked, and tech companies shouldn't get to decide where society draws the line. Act now, before smart glasses become the new normal.
Local action
Find where they're sold. Ask them to stop.
Enter your postcode or town to find smart-glasses stockists near you. Then ask them to stop selling them.
Together, we can let retailers know our concerns and see who will be brave enough to stop selling them first.
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The wider picture
Meta is the ringleader but the problem is much bigger than just them.
Cameras embedded in everyday items, such as glasses, should not be a normal part of everyday life. An urgent public debate is needed and, whilst we wait for this to happen, these devices must be immediately banned.
The price of innovation should not be your right to privacy. Tech companies don't get to decide where society draws the line. That's up to us.
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STOP SMART GLASSES
WE DON'T CONSENT TO THIS
01
Email your local optician
Ask opticians to stop selling smart glasses
Write to your local optician →
02
Email national retailers
Ask major retailers to stop selling smart glasses
Write to a national retailer →
03
Email your MP
Ask your MP to act before smart glasses become normal
Write to your MP →
04
Email a premises
Ask venues to ban cameras worn on faces.
Write to a premises →
Choose a retailer we've verified a real contact route for. Each message below is the campaign's approved national-retailer template, addressed to that retailer.
Dear David Clulow,
I'm asking you to stop selling camera-equipped smart glasses, including Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
As a major national optician, what you choose to stock matters. Your stores, website, advertising and reputation don't just respond to consumer trends – they help create them.
By selling camera-equipped smart glasses, you are helping normalise a technology that allows people to film those around them without holding up a phone or camera. The people being filmed can have no idea it's happening.
The person buying the glasses chooses to wear a camera on their face. Everyone around them gets no such choice.
And the danger isn't hypothetical. Smart glasses have already been linked to cases involving non-consensual intimate recording, sextortion and blackmail:
Non-consensual intimate recording:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/09/man-smart-glasses-illegally-record-sex-spared-jail/
Sextortion:
https://www.ubergizmo.com/2026/05/can-smart-glasses-be-used-for-extortion/
Blackmail:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o
A small recording light is not an adequate safeguard. Cheap stickers capable of obscuring LED lights are readily available.
Meta is leading the charge, but the problem is bigger than Meta. Other major technology companies are following.
Use your scale and influence as a national retailer responsibly. Stop selling Ray-Ban Meta and all camera-equipped smart glasses.
Don't help normalise a technology that allows people to record others without their knowledge or consent.
You can read more about the campaign and the evidence behind it here: https://bansmartglasses.com
Yours Sincerely,
[Your name]
Dear Vision Express,
I'm asking you to stop selling camera-equipped smart glasses, including Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
As a major national optician, what you choose to stock matters. Your stores, website, advertising and reputation don't just respond to consumer trends – they help create them.
By selling camera-equipped smart glasses, you are helping normalise a technology that allows people to film those around them without holding up a phone or camera. The people being filmed can have no idea it's happening.
The person buying the glasses chooses to wear a camera on their face. Everyone around them gets no such choice.
And the danger isn't hypothetical. Smart glasses have already been linked to cases involving non-consensual intimate recording, sextortion and blackmail:
Non-consensual intimate recording:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/09/man-smart-glasses-illegally-record-sex-spared-jail/
Sextortion:
https://www.ubergizmo.com/2026/05/can-smart-glasses-be-used-for-extortion/
Blackmail:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o
A small recording light is not an adequate safeguard. Cheap stickers capable of obscuring LED lights are readily available.
Meta is leading the charge, but the problem is bigger than Meta. Other major technology companies are following.
Use your scale and influence as a national retailer responsibly. Stop selling Ray-Ban Meta and all camera-equipped smart glasses.
Don't help normalise a technology that allows people to record others without their knowledge or consent.
You can read more about the campaign and the evidence behind it here: https://bansmartglasses.com
Yours Sincerely,
[Your name]
Dear Boots Opticians,
I'm asking you to stop selling camera-equipped smart glasses, including Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
As a major national optician, what you choose to stock matters. Your stores, website, advertising and reputation don't just respond to consumer trends – they help create them.
By selling camera-equipped smart glasses, you are helping normalise a technology that allows people to film those around them without holding up a phone or camera. The people being filmed can have no idea it's happening.
The person buying the glasses chooses to wear a camera on their face. Everyone around them gets no such choice.
And the danger isn't hypothetical. Smart glasses have already been linked to cases involving non-consensual intimate recording, sextortion and blackmail:
Non-consensual intimate recording:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/09/man-smart-glasses-illegally-record-sex-spared-jail/
Sextortion:
https://www.ubergizmo.com/2026/05/can-smart-glasses-be-used-for-extortion/
Blackmail:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o
A small recording light is not an adequate safeguard. Cheap stickers capable of obscuring LED lights are readily available.
Meta is leading the charge, but the problem is bigger than Meta. Other major technology companies are following.
Use your scale and influence as a national retailer responsibly. Stop selling Ray-Ban Meta and all camera-equipped smart glasses.
Don't help normalise a technology that allows people to record others without their knowledge or consent.
You can read more about the campaign and the evidence behind it here: https://bansmartglasses.com
Yours Sincerely,
[Your name]
No verified direct email — Ray-Ban's official UK contact page has a contact form.
Dear Ray-Ban,
I'm asking you to stop selling camera-equipped smart glasses, including Ray-Ban Meta glasses.
As a major national optician, what you choose to stock matters. Your stores, website, advertising and reputation don't just respond to consumer trends – they help create them.
By selling camera-equipped smart glasses, you are helping normalise a technology that allows people to film those around them without holding up a phone or camera. The people being filmed can have no idea it's happening.
The person buying the glasses chooses to wear a camera on their face. Everyone around them gets no such choice.
And the danger isn't hypothetical. Smart glasses have already been linked to cases involving non-consensual intimate recording, sextortion and blackmail:
Non-consensual intimate recording:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/09/man-smart-glasses-illegally-record-sex-spared-jail/
Sextortion:
https://www.ubergizmo.com/2026/05/can-smart-glasses-be-used-for-extortion/
Blackmail:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o
A small recording light is not an adequate safeguard. Cheap stickers capable of obscuring LED lights are readily available.
Meta is leading the charge, but the problem is bigger than Meta. Other major technology companies are following.
Use your scale and influence as a national retailer responsibly. Stop selling Ray-Ban Meta and all camera-equipped smart glasses.
Don't help normalise a technology that allows people to record others without their knowledge or consent.
You can read more about the campaign and the evidence behind it here: https://bansmartglasses.com
Yours Sincerely,
[Your name]
Read the campaign's approved MP message below, then use WriteToThem to find your MP and send it — WriteToThem is an independent, well-established service for contacting your representatives; we don't need to build our own MP lookup.
Dear [MP name],
I am writing as your constituent to ask you to support an immediate ban on the sale and use of camera-equipped smart glasses in the UK.
These devices allow people to film those around them without holding up a phone or camera. The people being filmed can have no idea it is happening.
Women and girls, children, older people, LGBTQ+ people and disabled people are particularly vulnerable. We know technology is already used for stalking, harassment, sexualised deepfakes and exploitation. Why are we making that easier by arming them with covert recording devices?
This raises serious questions under Article 8 of the Human Rights Act (the right to respect for private and family life), UK GDPR and data-protection law, and the Equality Act 2010.
Yet someone secretly recorded may never know their image was captured, where it went, how it was processed or what it was subsequently used for. There is no meaningful consent at the point of capture, and no meaningful justice being offered afterwards.
Everyone standing in front of the camera has rights too. We spent years allowing social media to race ahead of regulation. Only after serious harms to children, privacy and public safety became impossible to ignore did governments begin trying to catch up.
We don't want to repeat that mistake with smart glasses. We do not need another generation to be the evidence.
The window to act is shrinking. Once cameras worn on faces become normalised, walking it back will be extraordinarily difficult. In 10 or 20 years time, we may well look back and realise this was the moment when we could have stopped it.
I am asking you to support a blanket ban on camera-equipped smart glasses and press the Government to act now, before this becomes normal.
Yours sincerely,
[Name]
{postcode}
Ask a place you use — a gym, school, pub, restaurant, workplace, theatre, leisure centre or anywhere else — to introduce a policy restricting camera-equipped smart glasses. Copy the message below and send it through that organisation's normal contact route.
Dear [Leisure Centre / Gym / Venue name],
I'm asking you to ban recording-enabled smart glasses and camera-equipped eyewear from your premises.
These glasses allow people to film those around them without holding up a phone or camera. The people being filmed can have no idea it's happening.
In leisure centres, gyms and swimming pools, that is unacceptable. Children and adults are changing, swimming and exercising in spaces where they should be able to expect privacy.
And the danger isn't hypothetical. Smart glasses have already been linked to cases involving non-consensual intimate recording, sextortion and blackmail:
Non-consensual intimate recording:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/09/man-smart-glasses-illegally-record-sex-spared-jail/
Sextortion:
https://www.ubergizmo.com/2026/05/can-smart-glasses-be-used-for-extortion/
Blackmail:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o
A small recording light is not an adequate safeguard. Cheap stickers capable of obscuring LED lights are readily available.
And this technology is spreading. We need to set boundaries now, before cameras worn on people's faces become normal.
Please ban recording-enabled smart glasses and camera-equipped eyewear from your premises now. Make the ban visible at entrances and clear to both staff and customers.
People should be able to swim, exercise, change and spend time with their children without wondering whether the person next to them is recording them.
You can read more about the campaign and the evidence behind it here: https://bansmartglasses.com
Yours Sincerely,
[Your name]
Why we must act now
Children paid the price while parents, governments and institutions struggled to respond. Face-worn cameras bring new risks to privacy, safety and safeguarding, whilst the law is once again lagging behind.
We do not need another damaged generation to be the evidence. We must act now.
Five ways to take action