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Smart glasses used in first extortion case involving hidden camera footage

Smart glasses moved from theoretical privacy threat to extortion tool, with one woman filmed, posted, and charged for deletion.

The Short Version

A BBC investigation found a woman was secretly filmed using smart glasses, with the video posted online before the perpetrator demanded payment to remove it.

Smart glasses with built-in cameras were used to secretly film a woman, and the man then charged her money to delete the footage. When TikTok banned his account, the video simply moved to another platform. The glasses made the crime easy and the evidence portable. Wearable cameras were always a privacy risk in theory. Now there's a victim.

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