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Meta glasses are a workplace menace

The Verge
Aug 20, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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An employee at Target reported that customers wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses repeatedly pranked staff by asking for price checks while secretly recording interactions. The incident highlights concerns about these AI-enabled glasses being used as a workplace menace, with the wearers also antagonizing management and misgendering the employee.

In August, Toru Hinkle was stocking shelves at their job at Target when they noticed two customers and asked if they needed any help. The men requested a price check on an item - but even after Hinkle told them the item was $20, the customers asked for the price again and again.

"After a while, I realized that I'm basically being pranked, and I noticed the glasses," Hinkle says, referring to the frames with a blinking light. They were the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and the customers were filming. Hinkle eventually called a store manager over, but the pranksters antagonized her, too - asking the price repeatedly, deliberately misgendering Hinkle …

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