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Norway plans to propose a temporary ban on smart glasses in public places

Nothing is law yet: a panel would decide the details, and it is open whether camera-free glasses are covered.

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Hans Anders stops selling smart glasses in Belgium and the Netherlands

Hans Anders, a major European glasses retailer, will no longer sell smart glasses in Belgium or the Netherlands, Gizmodo reports. The restrictions so far have mostly covered where you can wear them.

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Newsom vetoes the California bill that would have required recording lights on smart glasses

California's governor vetoed SB-1130, which would have required a recording indicator on smart glasses and banned secret recording in private areas of businesses. Newsom said the bill's wording could sweep in smartwatches.

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Meta holds 94% of the display-free AI glasses market Apple is reportedly chasing

AI glasses shipments more than tripled in the first half of 2026, but almost all of it is Meta, and nobody has published how many units that is.

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Australia may bar camera glasses from federal workplaces

Katy Gallagher has asked the public service commission for advice on a ban, with exemptions likely for deaf and low-vision wearers.

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Police fear smart glasses in everyone's hands but their own

The Department of Homeland Security raised the same worry about covert recording, then started building its own pair with facial recognition.

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Four apps now exist to catch smart glasses recording you

Scanner apps listen for the Bluetooth a powered-on pair gives off, which means they work on every wearer except the one who disabled the light.

Sep 4

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Hamburg bans smart glasses from its trams and pools

A city government drew the line on a product almost nobody there owns yet, and the trigger was one video of one woman at a lake.

Sep 3

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Norway wants to ban a glasses feature nobody sells yet

There is no bill and no timeline, just an expert group and a target. The capability Norway wants outlawed is not in the glasses on sale today.

Sep 3

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Norway is weighing a ban on face recognition in glasses

Karianne Tung has no bill and no timeline. She has the first government saying out loud that the LED is not enough.

Sep 2

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Norway wants to ban face recognition on smart glasses

Norway's digitalisation minister wants smart glasses regulated before the feature she is worried about has shipped. Meta has the code and no product.

Aug 27

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VR headsets fell 79 percent while AI glasses rose 776

Smart eyewear shipped 4 million units in the quarter and Meta took more than three quarters of the AI glasses inside that. Google, Samsung and Apple have not launched anything into this market yet.

Aug 20