Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

thadt

> The ban could apply to parks, beaches, museums, shopping centres, schools, daycare centres, healthcare facilities, gyms and public events. True - many places where photography and video recording by people and organizations is already done on a broad scale with both smartphones and infrastructure cameras. > "We do not want a society where people worry about being recorded without their knowledge, photographed, or filmed in places and situations where they are accustomed to not being monitored" ... I think we're gonna need a bigger ban

indoordin0saur

> Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses I see what you did there.

laxd

A temporary measure. Knowing the current regime they will use years & millions on comittees, reports, reviews, expert groups and all kinds of bureaucratic wage labor I don't have english vocabulary for. And then, the EU, which we a not a member of, decides everything behind our back.

vkdelta

How is different from another device ? Phone, digital camera, etc .. someone can use that for taking the same photo .. Is it the added convenience of the glasses?

eecks

Why isn't the publishing of the captured video banned? If you want to upload content involving someone else (not just in the background) in it then you should need consent.

thangalin

This is short-sighted; smart contacts are viable. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-51137379

acd

Hope Sweden copies Norway and bans data fusion for ads data sharing glasses.

phyzome

I'd like to see this framed as a ban on surreptitious recording, not specific to glasses. But it's a little hard to figure out exactly what the parameters should be.

nowittyusername

You cant expect any privacy in public settings.... also what are the communities that banned these devices going to do once robots (very soon) become ubiquitous in our every day lives? robots need to have vision and will record everything... so they are just delaying the inevitable unless they go full amish in their communities which good luck with that....

bryan0

Does anyone else remember in the early 2000s the concerns around privacy with cell phone cameras? [0][1][2][3]. How long until people feel the same way about camera glasses? [0] New Privacy Menace: Cell Phones? (2003): https://www.wired.com/2003/02/new-privacy-menace-cell-phones... [1] More trouble for camera-phones (2003): https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2003/06/195-2/ [2] Camera Phones Raise Whole New Set of Privacy Issues (2004): https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/camera-phones-raise-w... [3] Cam Phones, Go Home (2005): https://time.com/archive/6671091/cam-phones-go-home/