Newsom agrees smart glasses need privacy rules—just not the ones California lawmakers wrote
Source: Fortune ·
Newsom rejected new recording safeguards as too broad, even as he acknowledged the privacy risks posed by wearable cameras.
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A phone pointed at a stranger is hard to miss. A camera tucked into a pair of glasses is another story—and lawmakers are trying to decide how much warning the person on the other side of the lenses should get. In California, that warning won’t be coming anytime soon. Last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required prominent recording indicators on wearable devices sold in the state beginning in 2028. It would also have prohibited disabling those indicators and made it a misdemeanor to record people without explicit consent in physical places of business like offices and retail stores where they reasonably expect privacy. California is home to several companies betting on smart glasses, but those companies, like Meta and Snap, are also raising privacy questions for people who never chose to wear them. Lawmakers want stronger protections against unnoticed recording, while Newsom argues that the proposed rules would reach too far into other everyday…
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