So are smartphones, and every other tech. I am going to wait a while before getting AR glasses, so people calm down.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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When you see someone with those take out your phone and take a closeup picture of them. See how they like it...
I am distraught to learn that apparently smart glasses are not banned in the EU. Until now I assumed without checking that they obviously would be.
Interestingly in most of the EU, there's is no expectation of privacy in public and you are free to record people without their concent.
Releasing or using those recordings is a completely different thing though.
You're free to record a crowd of people in public. Once you're pointing the camera at a person specifically, that's a whole different issue.
We are all vexed little rubberneckers. It's a human trait.
Glasshole the term needs to make a significant comeback. Normalize shunning, put up signs on bathrooms and anywhere else you can with
"'Smart' glasses forbidden. Fines applicable. Bluetooth detection active." and perhaps "This means you Glasshole ! "
whether such detection is active is moot, make the bastards as nervous as they should be. A (dummy) camera on the outside of the door should complete the illusion. Make them feel like perverts.
Non consensual filming should be unacceptable, but that's a whole other fight.
Bluetooth detection active
Yea, I'd love to get a fine for listening to music while I shit.
You can search specifically for smart glasses, e.g. the aptly named Nearby Glasses
Also, you likely can't fine them, but you can make them think about it.
Bluetooth devices have MAC addresses which can help tell Meta glasses apart from other BT devices.
Apparently in this case it's a bit more complicated and you have to rely on https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/assigned-numbers/ to identify glassholes.
Dystopian stuff. The public should be protected from this stuff.
I want to like smart glasses. And wearable tech in general. Too bad it's all entirely centralized, monetized, and exploited for political gain.
When I learnt about the concept I was immediately in. Even just the option to remind me of people's names would be life-changing, not to mention all the other information and reminders and whatnot not only at my fingertips but right into my eyeballs.
And then Google's glasses came out and were a data privacy nightmare and that day I think I lost another bit of my childhood innocence.
Too bad it's all entirely centralized, monetized, and exploited ~~for political gain.~~ as a fascist surveillance method.
Same. I gave up on the tech future a long time ago.
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I'm sure the people who have them love harvesting data for AI training since that's what they are clearly for.
I remember back in the early 2000s, when MiniDV cameras got popular.
They were all obviously a camera just based on the look, they had an obvious lens cap, and even a clear record light so that people could see that they were being recorded.
It is insane that we have done away with all of that, and are actively camouflaging cameras in every day items.
Smart glasses should be banned.
What we need is regulation. These companies will not show ethical behaviour on their own.
See e.g. right to repair, USB-C.
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