Zuck’s New Glasses Are a Fashionable Privacy Nightmare
Consumer tech offers both promise and peril — this one’s about the latter
He was just a normal guy — nothing special at first glance. Did not catch my eye as he passed me on my way to the metro, blending into the bustling street like any Madrileño on their morning rush. He wore a sustainable Ecoalf hoodie, instead of the Zara equivalent that half the city wears, a well-worn backpack, and those sleek horn-rimmed glasses that you’d expect from someone who spends weekend mornings at El Rastro bargaining for vintage vinyls and evenings watching OV movies in the Renoir cinema. A solid eco-hipster retropunk mix.
The metro was packed. Rush hour on Line 6, La Circular, is always the same. It gently loops around the city’s tourist spots — Retiro, Sol, Gran Vía, La Puerta de Alcalá, El Prado — bringing together all kinds of people. It’s an annoying reminder that we share this planet with eight billion others, but also a good one: those who look nothing like us exist too. Across me, on the other side of the train platform, a young woman was looking at me. Probably university age, with a Z-gen-coded pair of loose trousers, Ray-Ban glasses, and the long dark-brown wavy hair, typical in this corner of Europe.
