{"id":251273,"date":"2026-05-21T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/urgent-calls-for-privacy-regulation-threaten-to-spoil-the-smartglasses-party\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:00:27","slug":"urgent-calls-for-privacy-regulation-threaten-to-spoil-the-smartglasses-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/urgent-calls-for-privacy-regulation-threaten-to-spoil-the-smartglasses-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent calls for privacy regulation threaten to spoil the smartglasses party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/urgent-calls-for-privacy-regulation-threaten-to-spoil-the-smartglasses-party\/\">Urgent calls for privacy regulation threaten to spoil the smartglasses party<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/urgent-calls-for-privacy-regulation-threaten-to-spoil-the-smartglasses-party\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/urgent-calls-for-privacy-regulation-threaten-to-spoil-the-smartglasses-party\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-21 05:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meta continues to see success with its Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses. Google and Samsung have trumpeted the impending arrival of its \u201cintelligent eyewear\u201d rival products, and Snapchat is hard at work on its, still quite secret, alternative.<\/p>\n<p>However, government officials are becoming increasingly concerned about privacy and regulation, and it may have a serious effect on camera-equipped smartglasses in the future.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"deeply-problematic\">\n                        Deeply problematic<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>I will speak to the point about smart glasses. They are really creepy. The glasses are deeply problematic and intrusive.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to Olga Cronin, a senior policy officer for Enforce, a unit within the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) that investigates and protects human rights in the tech industry.<\/p>\n<p>The response came to a question raised by Senator Laura Harmon, a Labour councilor in Cork, Ireland, during a committee meeting on artificial intelligence which took place on May 19. <\/p>\n<p>Harmon was raising concerns over the technology, after several local incidents highlighted ongoing privacy worries related to the camera built into the Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses. <\/p>\n<p>In a subsequent debate, Harmon said smartglasses and the ability to record someone without consent needs more regulation. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"urgent-review\">\n                        Urgent review<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>Speaking to the Irish Examiner, Harmon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/urgent-calls-for-privacy-regulation-threaten-to-spoil-the-smartglasses-party\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urgent calls for privacy regulation threaten to spoil the smartglasses party https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/urgent-calls-for-privacy-regulation-threaten-to-spoil-the-smartglasses-party\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-21&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2025\/09\/ray-ban-meta-side.JPG?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251275,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251273\/revisions\/251275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}