Meta sold 7 million pairs of Ray-Ban smart glasses. Every bystander captured on those cameras consented to nothing.

This is not a privacy edge case. It is a mass surveillance product marketed as a lifestyle accessory. The scale, 7 million units in circulation, means the non-consenting public is already the product.

The argument for a ban is not hypothetical. It is arithmetic. Read the original for the specific legal and technical mechanisms the author proposes to make these glasses illegal to sell.

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