Camera glasses and the right to film
Recording hardware got small enough to wear, and venues, regulators and manufacturers are each writing a different rule for it. We track the bans, the capture indicators and the ways round them.
The EDPB says makers cannot pass their GDPR duties to wearers, and that glasses should not record with the indicator covered. Meta, meanwhile, fixed an audio-logging issue.
17 Sep 2026 Plaud Bets S$20m That Singapore Can Teach Its AI to Code-SwitchA wearable recorder company put its regional base at Marina Bay because Singapore meetings change language mid-sentence, which is the hardest thing its product has to do.
14 Sep 2026 Apple Built the Privacy Case for the Wearer, Not the RoomSiri Recap keeps audio inside a secure exclave and deletes summaries after seven days. Every protection belongs to the person wearing the watch, and none to the person talking.
3 Sep 2026 Meta Disabled Cameras on Thousands of Smart Glasses With Tampered LightsCovering the capture light temporarily locks the camera and reverses when the tape comes off. New hardware detection of a drilled-out light does not reverse at all.
2 Sep 2026 Norway's Minister Described a Use Rule. The Coverage Called It a Ban.Karianne Tung says the aim is to stop the equipment being used to monitor people in public. That describes a conduct rule, which is a different instrument from a product ban.
29 Aug 2026 Meta Fixed the Smart Glasses LED Bypass. The LED Was Never the Problem.Covering the capture light mid-recording no longer works, which closes a real loophole. Deliberate concealment was never the reason a few millimetres of light fails as notice to th...
11 Aug 2026 Wetherspoon Did Not Ban Smart Glasses. It Banned Filming With Them.More than 800 pubs, and the rule is about the recording rather than the device. That distinction is more durable than the headlines, and much harder to enforce.