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  • > The ban could apply to parks, beaches, museums, shopping centres, schools, daycare centres, healthcare facilities, gyms and public events.

    True - many places where photography and video recording by people and organizations is already done on a broad scale with both smartphones and infrastructure cameras.

    > "We do not want a society where people worry about being recorded without their knowledge, photographed, or filmed in places and situations where they are accustomed to not being monitored"

    ... I think we're gonna need a bigger ban

    by thadt
  • Hope Sweden copies Norway and bans data fusion for ads data sharing glasses.
    by acd
  • 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
  • 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
  • > Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

    I see what you did there.

    by indoordin0saur
  • > 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
  • 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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