A growing number of bars, restaurants and other entertainment venues across the UK are banning patrons from wearing smart glasses, like the Meta Ray-Bans, on well-justified privacy grounds.
The specs contain cameras that enable wearers to capture pictures and video. The potentially serendipitous nature of the recordings has seen the products labelled “pervert glasses”. And at the very least it throws up issues of consent.
That’s what the establishments saying “no” to the tech is concerned with – the idea that you shouldn’t randomly be filming people when they’re out having a nice time. You wouldn’t do it with your phone so why do it at all…
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