Some Retailers Are Opting Out of Selling Smart Glasses
Smart glasses are giving all sorts of people the ick: courts, teachers, restaurants, celebrities, and women in general, just to name a few. That’s a lot of people/categories, to be sure, but apparently we’re not done with the laundry list quite yet. In Germany, Hamburg’s parliament adopted a resolution that would ban wearing smart glasses in some public spaces, including transit and public pools, over fears of people using them to record others discreetly.
- ▪Smart glasses are giving all sorts of people the ick: courts, teachers, restaurants, celebrities, and women in general, just to name a few.
- ▪That’s a lot of people/categories, to be sure, but apparently we’re not done with the laundry list quite yet.
- ▪In Germany, Hamburg’s parliament adopted a resolution that would ban wearing smart glasses in some public spaces, including transit and public pools, over fears of people using them to record others discreetly.
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Smart glasses are giving all sorts of people the ick: courts, teachers, restaurants, celebrities, and women in general, just to name a few. That’s a lot of people/categories, to be sure, but apparently we’re not done with the laundry list quite yet. You can now add “stores that literally sell glasses for a living” to the anti-smart glasses constituency.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000820931","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"gadgets","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"gadgets","TAGS":"privacy,smart-glasses,wearables","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); According to Reuters, major…
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