{"id":251466,"date":"2026-05-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/can-smart-glasses-ever-be-privacy-friendly-these-companies-think-so\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:10:08","slug":"can-smart-glasses-ever-be-privacy-friendly-these-companies-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/can-smart-glasses-ever-be-privacy-friendly-these-companies-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Smart Glasses Ever Be Privacy-Friendly? These Companies Think So"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can Smart Glasses Ever Be Privacy-Friendly? These Companies Think So<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-21 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

When Google Glass was unleashed onto the world some 13 years ago, a consensus was quickly reached: smart glasses suck, and anyone who decides to put them on their face sucks just as much for wearing them. Actually, by donning Google Glass, you weren\u2019t just considered a jerk, you were a \u201cGlasshole,\u201d which, if you\u2019re counting mockery on the unofficial scale of ostracization, feels worse.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to today, and things are very different but, somehow, also utterly unchanged. What\u2019s different this time is that smart glasses are fairly commonplace, thanks in large part to Meta and its Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, which have been an outlier commercial success in the space. In 2025, Meta reportedly sold seven million units of its Ray-Ban and Oakley-branded smart glasses, up from two million the year prior. That\u2019s not iPhone 17 levels of sales, but it\u2019s not nothing, especially for a category that barely existed a few years ago.<\/p>\n

The Meta Ray-Ban Display is over a decade removed from Google Glass. \u00a9 Raymond Wong \/ Gizmodo <\/p>\n

Despite that increased popularity, though, the bitter taste of Google Glass hasn\u2019t quite dissipated from people\u2019s palates. Pushback over privacy issues has reared its ugly head again, and often for good reason. There was at least one case of extortion; someone used smart glasses to record sex workers without their knowledge; even the Ray-Ban Meta owners themselves were swept up in a privacy scandal when an investigation revealed that the company was sending some photos and videos taken with the smart glasses to human contractors who train Meta\u2019s AI. I won\u2019t get into details on what those photos and videos show, but it was stuff that the vast majority of us would like to keep private.<\/p>\n

Through the most mainstream of lenses, it would appear that the entire category is tilting toward a repeat of Google Glass\u2014a Glasshole 2.0, if you will\u2014but underneath the Meta of it all, there\u2019s dissent among purveyors of…<\/p>\n

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