sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoSmart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than everwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square86linkfedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down10
arrow-up1107arrow-down1external-linkSmart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than everwww.bbc.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square86linkfedilink
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoI 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.
minus-squareJohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoInterestingly 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.
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 days agoYou’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.
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.