244
Glasses that can record you shouldn't go unregulated. Ireland's AI Committee agrees.
(www.thejournal.ie)
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2026
244 points (99.6% liked)
privacy
11687 readers
252 users here now
Big tech and governments are monitoring and recording your eating activities. c/Privacy provides tips and tricks to protect your privacy against global surveillance.
Partners:
- community.nicfab.it/c/privacy
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I mean, no? Yes everyone hates on techbro things, but the possible benefit to the visually impaired cannot be understated. There shouldnt be a ban on ANY accessibility technology when it can help enrich the lives of those living with disabilities.
Now, should it be heavily regulated? Absolutely. People like to make jokes about European countries and their licenses for everything, but this should be a licensed disability aid, not an off the shelf dudebro accessory.
The data shouldn't be stored, and shouldnt be procced remotaly.
On device or person just in time processing. That would be fine for me.
I think we have some precedent for allowing exceptions for accessibility devices. Seeing eye dogs are allowed in places that other dogs are not, for example.
But regulation could still hurt the sight impaired by putting a chill on innovation in this space. No one’s going to invest big in these technologies just to serve the sight impaired, I’m sorry to say.
Thats why im not particularly mad about the dudebros throwing money at this stuff. Yeah, its douchey, but the money spent on this technology now will vastly help the visually impaired down the road. Just having glasses you can point at text to read it out loud is world changing.
Yes the accessibility side of the argument is very clear. If we could decide the whole thing based only on that, this would be easy.
This works better in Europe because making it a regulated medical device in the USA means "poor can use stick".
In California it is unlawful for anyone to carry a predominantly white cane unless they are at least partially blind. I dont see it as much of a stretch to extend that law to glasses like these.
Shit. I'm in California and colorblind, which I suspect isn't blind enough to count, but is blind enough to buy the wrong cane.
A blind person getting real time narration about their environment sounds amazing.