Five Great Reads: Secret filming, secret surgery and 30 years of Pokémon

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Jacqui Housden Get this in your inbox every weekend. Sign up for Five Great Reads here Hello and welcome to the weekend. You’re looking well, some might say “refreshed”. Is it the diet, the exercise, a relaxing holiday? You’d tell me if you’d had something “done”, right? According to the experts, and some thrilling anecdotes, cosmetic procedures are more popular than ever, but admitting to them certainly isn’t. And secrets – from those kept by the Botox brigade to the mysteries revealed by devastating drought – appear to play a theme this week. They have been branded “pervert or predator” glasses, a portent that a dystopian age of surveillance is upon us. Wherever you look, someone has an opinion (not always negative) on Meta Glasses, the clunky-ish but somehow sought-after offering from the tech gods. Now people are also reporting they have been secretly filmed in their own homes, at concerts and at work – and there’s a whole line of business helping it along. ‘We don’t have privacy any more’: Meta’s smartglasses are supposed to let you know the wearer i

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