Smart glasses are having a privacy reckoning, and Meta is caught in the middle
The smart-glasses backlash has reached the courtroom. From 20 July, New York will ban recording eyewear from every one of its 1,240 courts. It is the first US state to go that far. An internal memo from the New York State Unified Court System sets out the rule, first reported by Syracuse.com.
The ban is broad. It covers any glasses or headwear that can record audio or video, including prescription frames with a camera. Anyone who arrives wearing them must hand them to court officers. Staff and attorneys are not exempt. The stated aim is to stop people secretly taping proceedings, which breaks New York’s civil rights law.
A backlash years in the making
New York is not acting alone. Courts in Philadelphia, Hawaii and Wisconsin have already restricted the devices. Some cruise lines bar them in public areas too. The trigger is Meta. Its Ray-Ban and own-brand glasses...
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