Dilara was on her lunch break in the London store where she works when a tall man walked up to her and said: “I swear red hair means you’ve just been heartbroken.”

The man continued the conversation as they both got in a lift, and he asked Dilara for her phone number.

What Dilara did not realise was that the man was secretly filming her on his smart glasses - which look like normal eyewear but have a tiny camera which can record video.

The footage was then posted to TikTok, where it received 1.3m views. “I just wanted to cry,” Dilara, 21, told the BBC.

The man who filmed her, it turned out, had posted dozens of secretly filmed videos to TikTok, giving men tips on how to approach women.

Dilara also found out that her phone number was visible in the video. She then faced a wave of messages and calls.

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    14 hours ago

    just accept being filmed at all times in public?

    Funny you say that. There was a YouTube channel (that also spawned those NPC meme videos) that randomly went up to people and started recording them without context/saying anything. The idea was to bring attention to the fact that you’re being recorded in public spaces constantly, by bazillion cameras around

    Do something interesting and you might find yourself online by one of those cameras