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Reframing smart glasses as 'pervert glasses'
Smart glasses equipped with cameras, microphones, and AI are a creeping privacy and security nightmare, prompting backlash.

Meta glasses captured and shared intimate images without users' consent, lawsuit claims
People who use Meta's smart glasses or were recorded with the gadget are worried about how the social media giant is using their photos and videos.

The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public
Meta's camera-equipped "AI Glasses" are so divisive that some adopters are reportedly leaving their expensive smart glasses at home.

Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans
Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But in the past year,

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

Norway plans temporary ban on smart glasses in some public places
Camera-enabled Meta spectacles are already restricted in UK and US because of fears about unauthorised covert recording

ADAMAAS: Towards Smart Glasses for Mobile and Personalized Action Assistance
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Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography - Apple Security Research
Introducing Apple Reference Image, a new solution for verifiable photography on iPhone. This new, opt-in camera mode lets a photographer create a securely timestamped reference image that accurately depicts what was captured by the iPhone's camera sensor. Apple Reference Image offers a trustworthy, scalable guarantee that a reference image is what it claims to be: a real photograph, captured by a real sensor in an iPhone camera, at a specific period in time.

Florida cops are quietly using Meta smart glasses
Privacy advocates warn the glasses could let cops record people without them noticing.

A new app alerts you if someone nearby is wearing smart glasses | TechCrunch
A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.

Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure?
People say they’ve been secretly filmed in their own homes, at concerts and at work. Are the wildly popular smartglasses the final nail in the coffin of personal privacy?

Smart Glasses in Education - Artificial intelligence
Why look at smart glasses now? Smart glasses have been commercially available in some form for over a decade. More recently, they have returned to popular conversation, driven largely by Meta and its growing range of glasses. The lack of widespread adoption has been attributed to the high cost and limited capabilities of earlier models, […]

Envision Glasses
AI-powered smartglasses that articulate everyday visual information into speech, providing independence and possibilities for people who are blind or have low vision.

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims | TechCrunch
The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them via Meta's AI assistant.

Smart Glasses for Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment: A Scoping Review
This study aimed to identify and synthesize peer-reviewed literature on smart glasses for older adults with cognitive impairment. The review focused on (1) the technology and equipment used, (2) the specific tasks smart glasses are designed to support, (3) feasibility outcomes, when measured, and (4) the quality of the reviewed articles.

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report
Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.
