The incident has raised significant privacy concerns amid global scrutiny of wearable technology.
Amid mounting privacy concerns over the use of Meta glasses that can capture photographs, videos and even livestream to Instagram and Facebook, a Delhi man has sent a legal notice to Meta Platforms and an Instagram user to take down a video allegedly recorded without his knowledge using Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and pay ₹2.05 crore in damages.
The notice, served by lawyer and internet freedom activist Apar Gupta on August 24, also asked Meta to preserve the video and its complete metadata. Meta has additionally been asked to disclose whether it has a mechanism for reporting abuse involving its smart glasses and whether such product-safety measures are available to people who are recorded without their consent.
According to the notice, the incident took place on July 24 at a coffee outlet in Khan Market, New Delhi, where the complainant was allegedly accosted and harassed by an Instagram user whom he had never met. The complainant claimed that the encounter was covertly recorded using Ray-Ban Meta glasses, while unidentified associates of the Instagram user also recorded it from other vantage points.
The video was allegedly posted as an Instagram Reel on July 26 and viewed by lakhs. The complainant said he subsequently received messages from friends, colleagues and professional contacts about the video.
The complainant had reported the video and account to Instagram on July 27, including through Meta’s grievance mechanism. According to the notice, Instagram rejected the reports, saying the material did not violate its Community Standards. The complaint to Meta’s India Grievance Officer had received no acknowledgement nor decision as of the date of the notice.
The legal notice said that Meta has violated the Information Technology Act by its actions.
The Delhi complaint arrives against the backdrop of a broader reckoning over the same device abroad. A joint investigation earlier this year by the Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten found that footage and audio recorded by Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses were reviewed by human contractors in Kenya, including material containing sensitive personal content, such as bathroom visits, people undressing and bank cards visible in recordings. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission had questioned whether the original, tiny LED indicator was sufficient to alert people they were being filmed.
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