‘People were giving me dirty looks’: the backlash against Meta smartglasses
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Wearable cameras are hitting the same social friction Google Glass did—social license, not hardware, is the gating factor for ambient capture. If your product roadmap assumes casual recording in public spaces, build for explicit consent and visible signaling or expect pushback and policy risk.
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