{"id":10435,"date":"2026-11-12T17:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10435"},"modified":"2026-11-12T17:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T17:35:28","slug":"how-google-is-making-its-smart-glasses-more-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=10435","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How Google Says It\u2019s Making Its Smart Glasses More Private"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Payne hopes these policies and actions will encourage other companies to follow suit. \u201cWe hope that never again do glasses launch from some other company that doesn&#8217;t have good algorithms built in,\u201d he says. \u201cThat should not have happened; hopefully it doesn&#8217;t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Privacy experts I spoke with acknowledged that Google is trying not to repeat Meta&#8217;s mistakes, but they point out that smart glasses are still vehicles for collecting sensitive data. Even with an indicator light, it&#8217;s harder to tell when someone&#8217;s recording you in public than if someone is holding out their smartphone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Reem Suleiman, senior campaign director at the nonprofit digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future, says camera-equipped glasses shouldn&#8217;t be normalized in public because they are a precursor to mass surveillance and have the capacity to identify people. (This summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/meta-removes-face-recognition-code-meta-ai-app-smart-glasses\/\" class=\"text link\">Meta silently added a face-recognition code<\/a> to its smart glasses and then subsequently deleted it after a WIRED report; in 2024, two <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/someone-put-facial-recognition-tech-onto-metas-smart-glasses-to-instantly-dox-strangers\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.404media.co\/someone-put-facial-recognition-tech-onto-metas-smart-glasses-to-instantly-dox-strangers\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/someone-put-facial-recognition-tech-onto-metas-smart-glasses-to-instantly-dox-strangers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard students built a face-recognition<\/a> tool for Meta&#8217;s glasses.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cPeople find ways around it,\u201d Suleiman says. \u201cThere&#8217;s no actual aspect of consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Janusz Swierczynski, who researches human interactions with emerging tech at the University of Oxford&#8217;s Sa\u00efd Business School, tells WIRED these privacy measures are meaningful. However, they still largely address privacy at an individual level rather than thinking about people affected by them. That&#8217;s partly because the technology is advancing faster than policy and research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cA lot of privacy is managed by social norms, by what we think is acceptable to record, and that prevents people from recording anything and everything,\u201d Swierczynski says. \u201cNormalizing recording does have unintended consequences, which is why it&#8217;s important to focus on bystander privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Intriguingly, Payne highlighted that tech companies like Google need to make clear, declarative statements about what the glasses are doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cAmbiguity is not your friend here,\u201d Payne says. \u201cI think that a lot of that concern came from some trust being broken. So there is a rebuilding thing happening right now \u2026 You can hopefully have your cake and eat it too, which is cool glasses that everybody&#8217;s excited about\u2014that you&#8217;re comfortable with.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-google-is-making-its-smart-glasses-more-private\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payne hopes these policies and actions will encourage other companies to follow suit. \u201cWe hope that never again do glasses launch from some other company that doesn&#8217;t have good algorithms built in,\u201d he says. \u201cThat should not have happened; hopefully it doesn&#8217;t happen again.\u201d Privacy experts I spoke with acknowledged that Google is trying not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,832,57,32,177,103,104,105],"class_list":["post-10435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-android","tag-data-privacy","tag-gadgets","tag-google","tag-privacy","tag-samsung","tag-smart-glasses","tag-wearables"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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