Norway could become the first country in the world to ban the use of smart glasses in public places. The restrictions are planned to cover parks, beaches, museums, shopping malls, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, gyms and mass events, according to infohub.kz.
The corresponding bill was proposed to parliament by the Norwegian Labour Party. The reason is fairly obvious: such glasses allow people to be filmed unnoticed, intrude into their lives, or post photos or videos online without their knowledge.
"We do not want to live in a society where people fear being secretly photographed or filmed in places and situations where they are used to not being under surveillance," said Norway's Minister of Digitalisation and Public Governance, Torgeir Mikaelsen.
In Europe, particularly many questions are raised by glasses with built-in cameras manufactured by Meta. For example, in France, a child protection organization recently received about 20 reports of cases where people were filmed without their consent. Many of these recordings ended up on social media, where they became a source of ridicule and insults.
At the same time, it is surprising how quickly smart glasses have become part of everyday life. Not long ago, cameras disguised as pens, buttons, chargers and other everyday objects were considered means for covert information gathering, and their use could lead to real legal trouble. Including in Kazakhstan. And today, the same technology, only built into ordinary glasses, is freely sold as a consumer gadget.
Earlier, Kursiv LifeStyle wrote that Rollme released smart glasses with a 12 MP Sony camera, a voice AI assistant and a real-time conversation translation feature. They cost $100.