Teen boys are using Meta's smart glasses to secretly film and post girls at school

A student filmed himself dropping his phone into a Yondr confiscation pouch, then kept recording on his Meta glasses. That clip sits inside a large batch reviewed by Futurism. The school rule covered the phone, not the lens.

In every clip Futurism reviewed on TikTok and Instagram, the filmer was a teenage boy and the target was almost always a teenage girl. Hallways, cafeterias, and classrooms were the usual stages, with subjects often filmed without consent before the footage was uploaded. One prolific teen poster has more than 64,000 combined followers across the two platforms.

Meta, which sells the AI Glasses in partnership with Ray-Ban, removed most flagged videos and says the camera includes a capture LED that disables recording if covered or damaged. TikTok also removed flagged clips. The hardware safeguard does not reach the consent-after-capture problem: the subject is filmed openly, and the upload happens without their knowledge.

Districts have moved in the past two weeks to ban smart glasses in classrooms, including Polk County, Florida, a Pennsylvania district, and Carson City, Nevada. Legal experts note the recordings may violate one-party or two-party consent laws in some states.

The school pattern echoes a broader trend documented by Wired and Mashable, where adult creators use the glasses to film strangers and coworkers. Schools spent millions on Yondr pouches to take phones out of class. The next consent fight is over a device that looks like eyewear.