Glenn Beck: Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta glasses pitch sounds more like a threat

AI wearables, like Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, may be convenient, but at what cost — and not just to the wearer but to the surrounding public?

Unlike cameras and phones, which “announce” themselves, says Glenn Beck, AI wearables go practically undetected — which raises the issues of consent and privacy.

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But this tension is not new.

Glenn notes that early photography required subjects to “hold still … 30 seconds,” so permission was built in. Then came the first true hidden cameras — “detective cameras” worn under a vest with the lens shaped “to look like a button.”

Shortly after, George Eastman’s small box camera arrived and made candid snapshots easy. The public backlash was fierce: beaches and the Washington Monument banned them, and papers called carriers “Kodak Fiends.”