Smart glasses should automatically blur people’s faces while filming, Australia’s online safety regulator says

Smart glasses with cameras can benefit the vision impaired but companies might pit ‘accessibility benefits against safety and privacy’, says eSafety Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s online safety regulator has urged smart glasses companies to automatically blur people’s faces filmed on the devices, and make it clearer when someone is filming, as the federal government faces pressure to ban the technology. In advice to industry published on Monday, the office of eSafety commissioner warned that while smart glasses with cameras, such as Meta’s Ray-Ban, can offer accessibility benefits to low vision or blind people, companies might pit “accessibility benefits against safety and privacy considerations,” and noted there was already a backlash to the technology. Continue reading...