The PM’s small measures aim to help the public take back control – and we know how powerful that can be | Gaby Hinsliff

E-bikes, noisy headphones, flytipping: Burnham is weighing in on areas that make a difference to how people feel about life

Imagine waking up one morning to find a humiliating video of you, filmed without your knowledge or control, plastered all over social media. Maybe you were sweating at the gym; or maybe at work, in a bar, or walking down the street, where you never realised the stranger hassling you for your number was covertly filming for his social media channel dedicated to shaming women who won’t date him.

This week ministers hinted at a potential crackdown on so-called pervert glasses, wifi-enabled spectacles that let the wearer capture video of people around them, after multiple reports of men using them to harass women. (Though a small flashing light on the frame is meant to warn that the user is filming, it’s easily missed and worryingly easily disabled.) If so, it would be a small win, admittedly, in the context of what feels like an endless losing battle against big tech. But it would give young women back some small sense of control in life, and that matters perhaps more than we think.

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist

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