SMART GLASSES SMASH : CROWN PRECIS

DINNER is being recorded - whether you want that or not. As smart glasses capture scenes, service workers are unwitting participants.

Last summer, Tom Wong was working at the Chubby Crab, his family seafood boil restaurant in Manhattan's Chinatown, when a regular approached the counter.

She ordered a combo - and ate at the table near the door, neutering between bites.

Mr. Wong, 32, didn't think anything of it. But a few days later, another customer came in and asked for a selfie. Then the asks kept coming.

He had been recorded without his knowledge using a lentil-size camera embedded in a pair of Meta Ray Ban glasses.

The video was cover two million times on TikTok, turning Mr. Wong and the restaurant in New York into unwitting stars.

'' At a certain point, I stopped working in the front of the restaurant,'' he said. '' It was really uncomfortable.''

To be in public is to risk being filmed. And these days there's a good chance it's happening surreptitiously with smart glasses.

Wearers are filming in restaurants, cafes and bars, capturing warped, eye-level video of drive-through pranks, Michelin - starred meals and work shifts at Texas Roadhouse.

Servers, owners and customers can end up as captive participants.

'' There are people who are using them in slick ways,'' said Madi Elder, a bartender at the Brooklyn Wine Cellar.

'' It can Feel like harassment.''

The World Students Society thanks Luke Fortney