Smart glasses are allowing men to “monetise misogyny ” by filming women and girls without their consent and posting the footage online for profit, MPs have warned.

Lawmakers warned offenders are “getting away” with exploiting women for views because of gaps in harassment law, which requires a victim to be targeted multiple times in order to meet the threshold.

Speaking at a debate in parliament on Wednesday, Liberal Democrat MP Marie Goldman said creators on social media are receiving “millions” of views and profiting from the filming, saying the UK law is a “wild west” when it comes to privacy and online abuse.

MPs said UK law is a ‘wild west’ when it comes to covert filming in public spaces (Getty/iStock)

“It doesn’t matter that the same harassing behaviour is replicated across potentially dozens of women,” she said. “All that currently matters in the law is that it is not done repeatedly to the same woman. As such, this disgusting behaviour is not only legal, but profitable.…