Could Meta Ray-Bans be banned in Europe? EU regulators dial up the pressure on smart glasses — and the rest of the world is watching
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Sydney Morning Herald
Concern mounts over growing popularity of smart glasses
As smart glasses fitted with hidden cameras become more popular, privacy concerns are mounting.
It looks like ordinary glasses, but the tiny cameras embedded in the frames allow those who wear them to film without taking their phone out of their pocket. The success of the intelligent Meta glasses, sold in over 7 million copies worldwide, is now accompanied by fears about private life, and restaurants, pubs and theaters in the UK have begun to prohibit them, writes The Guardian.
As smart glasses become more common, concerns about eavesdropping have arisen. Will Helsinki residents notice when a journalist uses the glasses to record street interviews?
Could Meta Ray-Bans be banned in Europe? EU regulators dial up the pressure on smart glasses — and the rest of the world is watching
Smart glasses bans are being introduced and consideredThere are growing concerns over smart glasses privacyCould hardware changes solve people's concerns?I’ve written a lot about the high likelihood of major smart glasses regulation being introduced in various regions as the technology garners more and more bad press, and as expected, we’re starting to see bans and other restrictions take shape.No nation has yet to all-out ban smart glasses, but…
The intelligent glasses of the Meta are generating controversy due to the increasingly less perceptible way in which they capture photographs or videos of other people, in a non-consensual way. Although they are not officially sold in Portugal, the use of these glasses - as many experts classify them - has already crossed the border. After all, what are these glasses, what dangers they represent, what Portuguese law says and how can one detect w…
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