"Smart glasses, like the newly revealed Meta Ray-Ban Displays, solve lots of problems. They can provide live translation and captions while chatting with a foreign friend, they can use provide turn-by-turn directions and a mini map so you don't get lost on the way to that new coffeeshop, they can take pictures so you're not fumbling with your phone while enjoying a sunset or nature walk."
"An esthetician can covertly record her client's Brazilian wax. A student can cheat on their medical residency exam in plain sight. A hacker can put facial recognition software on their smart glasses in order to dox strangers. There is a huge, maybe insurmountable, problem with smart glasses that must be addressed: privacy. Glasshole 2.0 Emphasis on "It wasn't hard." They used publicly avaliable technology. Source."
Smart glasses deliver practical features such as live translation, captions, turn-by-turn directions, mini maps, and hands-free photography. These devices can greatly improve communication, navigation, and convenience during everyday activities. The same capabilities enable covert misuse: professionals can secretly record clients, students can cheat, and hackers can deploy facial-recognition to identify and dox strangers. The greatest challenge posed by smart glasses is protecting privacy, as their discreet design and publicly available software make intrusive surveillance easy. Addressing privacy risks will require legal, technical, and social solutions because current norms and protections may be inadequate.
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