Businesses & Community Centers: Sign the pledge to protect children now!
Meta Ray-Bans are integrating facial recognition technology that puts children, women, and other vulnerable customers in the crosshairs of predators. Here are all the resources you need to ban them from your store, your place of worship, your school, your hospital, etc.—and keep your community safe!
The pledge reads…
As a family-friendly establishment that cares deeply about families and the safety of our community, we are making the commitment to ban facial recognition glasses.
Parents, children, teens, women, and all sorts of vulnerable people deserve to feel safe and comfortable when they visit us. Our community should not have to worry about whether someone wearing a product like Meta Ray-Bans is filming them or using facial recognition technology on them. For the safety of all, we pledge to ask that everyone remove such products before entering our doors.
Learn more about this issue
On March 3, 2026, digital human rights group Fight for the Future issued a safety advisory urging family-friendly businesses to ban Meta’s facial recognition glasses, manufactured in partnership with Ray-Ban.
As awareness grows following high profile instances of deepfake child pornography and child predation, glasses that both film children without the knowledge of their parents and that can be used to search the Internet for a child’s face and personal information are a clear and prescient danger.
Women’s rights groups have also warned that these glasses pose “real threat to women’s everyday lives”, hospitals are also contemplating bans, and employees are also facing “exploitative” impacts —and that was before Meta announced that it would be adding facial recognition to its Ray-Bans.
Most recently, judges are having to ban Meta Ray-Bans from filming their courtrooms and privacy experts have called on federal and state officials to block Meta from adding facial recognition to its Ray-Bans. Their letter urges lawmakers to “act now to prevent this planned feature from being deployed in every bathroom, clinic, classroom, house of worship, and protest in the country. The introduction of commercially available, easily disguised, facial recognition-enabled surveillance devices threatens to cause immense and unavoidable harm to the public.”
Are you a customer? Ask your favorite businesses and more to ban Meta Ray-Bans!
There are lots of ways to ask your business community, school, church, or hospital to protect children and other vulnerable people. We wrote these like you are reaching out to a business like a toy store or grocery, but feel free to remix our language to fit whoever you are contacting.
1. If you are really fired up, you could also seek out your local chamber of commerce and email them about speaking at their next meeting on this issue.
2. Print out some posters and bring them in to your favorite businesses. Ask to speak to the manager and hand them the posters. Tell them that you’re concerned about the safety of children in the store and hope they will consider putting up these posters.
3. Call the store and ask for the manager or their voicemail. Tell them:
Hi, I shop with you frequently and I’m calling because I am concerned about what shoppers who are wearing Meta Ray-Bans are doing with the video they are taking of children in your store. They are installing facial recognition technology that might help predators to hurt kids and women. There is more information at GlassesChildSafety.com and a pledge for businesses to protect vulnerable customers. Would you please consider signing on and putting up the poster on your doors?
4. Message the store on email or social media, or leave a social media comment. You could say:
I shop with you frequently and I am concerned about what shoppers who are wearing Meta Ray-Bans are doing with the video they are taking of children in your store. They are installing facial recognition technology that might help predators to hurt kids and women. There is more information at GlassesChildSafety.com and a pledge for businesses to protect vulnerable customers. Would you please consider signing on and putting up the poster on your doors? Thank you!