Ban Meta Ray-Bans & All Surveillance Glasses

The pledge reads…

As a space that is committed to the safety of people in our community, we have made the decision to ban facial recognition glasses.

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. If smart glasses are being used as assistance devices, this should be communicated, but otherwise- for the safety of all- we pledge to ask that people remove such products before accessing this space.

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.

This came at a time of growing awareness following high profile instances of deepfake child pornography and child predation, knowing Meta’s facial recognition glasses both film children without the knowledge of their parents and 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” and there has been massive public outcry from countless women who have been exposed to predatory, non-consensual filming from men wearing these glasses in public.

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.

Judges are banning 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.”

Ask your favorite businesses and community spaces to ban Meta Ray-Bans!

There are lots of ways to ask your business community, school, church, or hospital to protect women, 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, and other surveillance glasses, are doing with the video they are taking of women and children in your store. They are installing facial recognition technology that might help predators. There is more information at FFTF.Link/MetaRayBans 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’m calling because I am concerned about what shoppers who are wearing Meta Ray-Bans are doing with the video they are taking of women and children in your store. They are installing facial recognition technology that might help predators. There is more information at FFTF.Link/MetaRayBans and a pledge for businesses to protect vulnerable customers. Would you please consider signing on and putting up the poster on your doors?