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Credit: ANI NEW DELHI: An unexpected roadside interaction between Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay and an elderly woman became one of the notable moments of his visit to Mettur in Salem district on Tuesday. During the brief encounter, Vijay gifted the woman his own pair of Christian Dior sunglasses.Vijay was in Salem to open the gates of the Mettur Dam and release water for Samba cultivation in the Cauvery Delta. News agency PTI reported that after inspecting the Mettur hydroelectric power station and opening the sluice gates of the Stanley Reservoir, he made an unscheduled stop at a roadside farm while travelling towards Salem airport.According to local accounts, Vijay noticed a group of elderly women working in the fields and stepped out of his vehicle to meet them.Chellam, an elderly resident of the area, walked towards the chief minister and held his hand.“He asked me if I had eaten,” Chellam recalled. “I told him I hadn’t, because I was waiting to see him first.”During the interaction, Vijay asked her name and enquired about her well-being before walking with her around the garden and the nearby cattle shed belonging to local farmer Palanisamy.Chellam said the chief minister then offered her the sunglasses he was carrying. She later appeared in the oversized frames, walking beside Vijay with her hand on his arm and waving to people gathered along the route as he led her through the crowd.“I was surprised when he came and stood next to me. I told him how happy I was to see him, and he gifted me these sunglasses,” she told PTI.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesAccording to Chellam, Vijay’s gesture reminded her of his days in cinema.“He looked just like he does in his movies,” she said. “I was so happy I told him I would defend him if anyone ever tried to harm him.”The chief minister spent around 15 minutes at the farm, during which he distributed dhotis and sarees to the host family and discussed local agricultural issues, including the government’s decision to increase the milk procurement price to Rs 44.Chellam later said Vijay also urged her to have food. “He told me he had already eaten and insisted that I go and eat,” she said.Videos of the interaction were subsequently shared widely on social media. The visit also comes as the state government focuses on water release for Samba cultivation, with the Mettur Dam playing a key role in irrigation across the Cauvery Delta during the cropping season.Get the latest India News and Live updates. Download the TOI app.About the AuthorSubhadra SrivastavaSubhadra Srivastava is a journalist with The Times of India, covering geopolitics, international and national affairs. With over three years of experience, she focuses on national and global developments, conflict, diplomacy and their impact on India. 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It seeks to hold Meta responsible in two capacities: as the owner of Instagram, which allegedly continued to host the reel after receiving complaints, and as the technology company behind the design and marketing of the camera-equipped glasses used to record it.The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), which provided the victim pro bono legal assistance, says this is, to its knowledge, among the first legal actions in India to directly raise the liability of a smart-glasses maker for harm allegedly enabled by its product design.The case has not been decided by a court yet and the claims in the notice, so far, remain allegations. The man, whose identity has been withheld and who is referred to as X, is represented by advocate Apar Gupta.So, what allegedly happened?According to IFF, X was sitting alone at a Costa Coffee outlet in Delhi’s Khan Market on July 24 when a stranger, who eventually turned out to be a creator, approached him.The creator allegedly pestered and insulted him with unsolicited questions and remarks and followed him inside the café. X complained to the staff and eventually moved to another seating area to get away from the unpleasant situation thrust upon him.What he did not know, IFF says, was that the encounter was allegedly being recorded through Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. One or more of the creator’s associates also allegedly filmed the exchange from other angles without his knowledge or consent.The footage was posted as an Instagram reel on July 26. By August 6, according to IFF, it had received more than 4.19 lakh views, approximately 15,700 likes and over 500 comments.X reported both the video and the account to Instagram on July 27. According to IFF, the reporting menu offered no category specifically covering invasion of privacy or non-consensual recording. The victim, therefore, selected “bullying or harassment”.He also submitted a separate complaint to Meta’s grievance officer for India under “Privacy violation — sharing of personal information or representation without consent.”Instagram subsequently informed him that the reported material doesn’t go against its “Community Standards”, according to IFF.Why has Meta been named?The most significant part of the notice concerns the glasses themselves.Developed by Meta in partnership with eyewear company EssilorLuxottica, Ray-Ban Meta glasses resemble conventional eyewear but allow users to take photographs and record videos hands-free. They were launched in India in May 2025 at a starting price of ₹29,900.The glasses have a small white capture LED on the front that indicates when the camera is being used. The notice argues that this warning is inadequate because it can easily be missed by someone who does not know that the glasses contain a camera.“The recording indicator on the said devices is inadequate and easily overlooked, and the harm that eventuated to our client is due to a design that is foreseeably enabled,” the notice states.It argues that Meta “owed and breached a duty of care” to X and was negligent in contributing to the alleged intrusion into his privacy.Crucially, the notice argues that this liability arises from Meta’s own product-design and marketing decisions and is therefore separate from its role as an online intermediary.Join conversationView All Comments →Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesSection 79 of the Information Technology Act provides conditional protection to online intermediaries against liability for content posted by third parties. The notice contends that such protection cannot extend to a negligence claim arising from Meta’s own product design.That argument has not yet been tested in court.The Delhi dispute could now test a different question: whether a company that makes wearable cameras has a responsibility not merely to indicate that recording is taking place, but to ensure that an unsuspecting bystander can reasonably understand that they are being filmed.To know more, subscribe and read the full story on TOI+ —Secretly filmed by Meta glasses: Why a Delhi man is demanding Rs 2.05 croreWhat Meta says about safeguards against covert recordingWhat studies have found about privacy and camera-equipped glassesWhat the legal notice demands from Meta and the Instagram creatorGet the latest India News and Live updates. 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