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Crossbenchers push for an import ban on 'pervert' smart glasses (www.abc.net.au)
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In recent weeks the devices, dubbed "pervert glasses" by some critics for their capacity to film in secret, have inspired two Australian petitions calling for restrictions on their sale and import which attracted tens of thousands of signatures.

Now the Greens, with support of independents, plan to launch a bill when parliament next sits to halt the import of such glasses as well as other wearable recording devices for at least 12 months, until tougher privacy protections are passed into law.

"If we end up having millions of these devices in the country, there'll be no place that's free for your privacy," Greens senator David Shoebridge said.

"Right now it's glasses, but in a month's time it's almost certainly going to be earbuds, maybe it'll be a lapel pin, maybe it'll just be your T-shirt, I don't know".

He said parliament had a narrow window of time to block their large scale importation before such devices "wash through society".

"Maybe we should think ahead for once," Senator Shoebridge said.

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Add to that, the lack of agency that a hidden camera gives. There’s the real issue; being unaware of being filmed by a possible pervert and not having the ability to request it stop or move away

This is even worse when it comes to the filming of children. Considering the market for children's images on the dark web and so on, we really should not be having second thoughts about these bloody spying tools. I don't know if these glasses have zoom capacity but if they do it would be easy, for example, for some sleaze to be filming young children on play equipment from a distance and neither guardians nor children be aware. There could be some many other instances. We must protect the children.

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