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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    2 days ago

    That woman who smashed an idiot’s glasses in New York a few weeks/months? ago was ahead of the curve.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s all good until she breaks someone’s plain old real prescription glasses thinking they are smart glasses.

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      10 hours ago

      Is she going to smash all of the other cameras recording her in public?

      Or it’s okay when governments/businesses do it?

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        10 hours ago

        I didn’t say it was, but the governments/businesses aren’t posting people’s contact information to TikTok.

        If someone wants to start smashing flock cameras, I’m certainly not going to stop then