The glasses, which can record video footage, have been banned at more than 800 pubs across the UK over concerns about privacy. Having increased in popularity, Meta Glasses have sparked fears about people being recorded without their knowledge and the footage being posted online. "Apart from that, the general code that applies in our pubs, and most pubs, is that you can’t film customers or employees without their permission. "Meta glasses seem to breach this code, and common sense, by enabling surreptitious surveillance, so our instinct is to say turn off the cameras. "This is akin to our efforts to stop audible playing of videos in our pubs, which also invades people’s space."