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  • > We do not want a society where people worry about being recorded without their knowledge

    Isn't everyone already carrying an expensive wiretap around with them at all times anyway? Is the only difference that people don't know or care how their smartphone can be made to record everything they say and thus they don't worry?

    by OroPla
  • Hope Sweden copies Norway and bans data fusion for ads data sharing glasses.
    by acd
  • I protect my privacy, but I have no major problems with these smart glasses. Cameras are everywhere, if they don't want to accept cameras they need to stop the double morals. Law needs to be equal to everyone, not just because there is some high and mighty populist politician that doesn't understand technology or want to ensure that the core principles of protecting apply.

    The current regulation is good enough; we don't need more regulation - if anything we should update the existing regulation to ensure we protect our privacy in critical and sensitive places.

    we keep forgetting that having cameras readily available is not just a negative thing, it does help provide forensics material in cases where something happens.

    that said, we can probably find common ground rules for using these - norwegians are best in class when it comes to adhering to rules and regulations.

    by makach
  • 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.
    by eecks
  • 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.
    by laxd
  • > Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

    I see what you did there.

    by indoordin0saur
  • 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.
    by phyzome
  • 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/

    by bryan0

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