Premier Ford: Ban "Creeptech" in Ontario's Public Spaces

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 present 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.

Put bluntly: the primary use case for this technology is creeps preying on women and children.

Most recently, judges are having to ban Meta Ray-Bans from filming their courtrooms and privacy experts have called on 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.”

In an age of easily generated deepfakes and virtual harassment, Ontario families need the government to step in. Join Tell Premier Ford it's time for Ontario to ban "Creeptech" goggles like Meta's facial recognition Ray-Bans from public spaces, particularly those frequented by families with children.