Westminster Hall
4 November 2026
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Westminster Hall Actual start House of Commons
Follow its sittings15:08 - 15:15
Speaker 1
Order. Hannah Sabina to move the motion.
15:15 - 16:46
Speaker 2
A few months ago, I was delighted with the support of many women in the urban design industry, and the Minister for Housing and Planning to get women and girls mentioned in the National Planning Policy Framework. Across the UK, 86% of women and girls aged 18 to 24 have experienced harassment in public spaces and it seemed crazy to me that they weren't going to be at the forefront of how we design those spaces and places. And yet having won this victory just before the summer, I was horrified to see stories about AI glasses appearing all over the press. Adverts for smart glasses appeared across London. Online, celebrities saw them as a device to stay in the moment and enjoy effortless connection.
And one of the key selling points was that these glasses could be used to film discreetly. To me, this didn't look like a fantastic new innovation. It looked like a device for filming women and girls without their knowledge in the very spaces we've been campaigning to make them feel welcome in.
Planning policy had finally accepted that women's safety matters in the spaces we build, but at the same moment technology was eroding women's privacy and safety in those same spaces. Sales of smart glasses are now soaring and already my fears about their use are being realised. Women are reporting waking up after nights out to find videos of themselves have gone viral online, filmed without their knowledge or consent by men wearing smart glasses. The only indication anyone has that they're being filmed is a small LED light in the corner of these glasses, but that's quickly disappearing with "Ghost Meta" shops opening offering to remove the light entirely so that no one in a public space knows they're being filmed. To me these devices have the potential to not only erode safety and privacy in public spaces, but they raise really important questions about consent.
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