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Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

https://www.barrons.com/news/norway-eyes-partial-ban-of-smart-glasses-e65dc239
35•pseudolus•1h ago

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thadt•51m ago
> 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

iamnothere•29m ago
This seems similar to how much of SE Asia requires a “click” sound from camera apps, to prevent surreptitious photos, or how some US states require both parties to consent when recording audio of a conversation. There’s plenty of precedent for privacy laws related to public recording, across the world. And they don’t have to be perfect—the goal is to limit access to casual snooping and creepshots, and to ensure that those who habitually violate privacy can be prosecuted if caught.

Just because you’re in public doesn’t mean it’s ok to take secret upskirt photos, film in the gym showers, etc. There actually is a certain level of privacy expected in public.

Ajedi32•18m ago
Banning harmful behavior (like secretly recording someone) is pretty defensible and not all that controversial. Banning the mere possession of generic tools that could potentially be used to engage in harmful behavior is a lot more dubious. It requires infringing the rights of a bunch of innocent people merely because they might use that freedom to do something wrong.
intrasight•13m ago
The obvious solution is to have them behave like drones - where their behavior is geofenced.
sleepyguy•11m ago
Yeah, lets also ban smart phones, cameras and recording devices just in case.
indoordin0saur•28m ago
> Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

I see what you did there.

laxd•9m ago
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.

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309•emptybits•14h ago•239 comments

Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

https://www.barrons.com/news/norway-eyes-partial-ban-of-smart-glasses-e65dc239
39•pseudolus•1h ago•8 comments

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