Smart Glasses Are Creeping Out Entire Countries

As interest in smart glasses balloons, aversion toward them has tracked right along with it. In fact, that aversion is so strong that entire countries are now looking to restrict when and how smart glasses should be allowed. Take Norway, for example. The Norwegian government, specifically the Ministry of Digitalisation, just announced that it’ll be seeking “stricter regulation” of smart glasses and is apparently urging both public and private entities to “consider their own guidelines,” according to the AFP. The reason? Privacy, of course. In a statement, Minister Karianne Tung made the scope of perceived problems with smart glasses adoption pretty clear. “We can see that people’s private lives and privacy are coming under pressure from new technology, and I therefore want to regulate smart glasses and similar devices more strictly than today,” Tung said in a statement to the AFP. “This could, for example, mean banning features such as facial recognition of other people in public spaces.” While that last specter, facial recognition, isn’t currently an issue, Meta, the biggest purveyor of smart glasses right now, is reportedly looking in that direction. In fact, latent code for a fa