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Are smart glasses allowed in public in EU? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by conspiracypentester@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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More and more, i see people wearing these 'smart' glasses as sunglasses which i find totally creepy and intrusive. Living in the EU, i am wondering how these glasses are even 'allowed' in public or may even be sold here. It becomes harder to avoid cause they become so hard to identify. How to deal with this? To what extend is this allowed? (cause apparently it is some way)

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[–] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Police officers? The main issue here is that those laws are about balance. Balance of your rights and the persons' you are filming. There are some general rules and a large grey area.

In general your vlogging isn't an issue. However, if you knowingly start recording a specific person e.g. a busker, or in your case a street scammer, things become more difficult - especially because you are vlogging. The expectation that you are going to upload the video makes it unlikely that you are just recording for evidence.

I am not a lawyer. I think the police promarily tried to de-escalate here.