It’s a familiar scene: A woman is strolling by the beach when a man approaches her, asking for her name and phone number. She declines, saying she has a boyfriend at home. What’s unfamiliar is that the woman in question saw this scene played back to her a few weeks later in the form of a TikTok video she never knew was being created.

This is Oonagh’s story, who the BBC reported was filmed by a man wearing smart glasses without her consent. When a friend sent her the recording of their interaction that had been posted on TikTok, Oonagh told the BBC it made her feel scared, especially when she saw the abusive comments under the video. The lack of control she had over her own likeness being posted online elicited panic.

“It really freaked me out—it made me feel afraid to go out in public,” she said.

Oonagh is far from alone. Reports of people using smart glasses—devices that can take many forms, but are often AI-enabled glasses that have audio and video recording capabilities built in—to record others without permission are popping up all over the internet.

Last October, SFGate reported that the University of San Francisco warned students about a man filming unknowing students using Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, saying “unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions.” The Times documented a handful of instances in which these kind of glasses were used to surreptitiously record women. And social media users have raised privacy concerns, wondering how this wearable surveillance tech adds to the digital panopticon that has become our lives.

Recently, reports circulated about Grok, Elon Musk-owned X’s AI bot, taking photos of clothed women and making them nude on demand, prompting a surge of rightful outrage at the intersection of sex, technology, and consent. Now, not only do we have to worry about AI bots making us naked online, but we’re also gaining suspicion of anyone wearing glasses—none of which feels particularly good.

Because this technology is pretty new, advances have largely outpaced legal frameworks to protect people from exploitative uses. Still, some countries are investigating how they might regulate this kind of device, particularly places in Europe, where privacy laws are particularly strict. According to Reuters, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission questioned whether a small light on the glasses was enough to let people know they were being recorded, which triggered the makers of the glasses to enlarge that light and make it blink. That’s progress, so let’s see where the future takes us.