I would think theaters would have banned these instantly to prevent movie piracy. The fact that they haven't really shows how thoughtless they are regarding how piracy actually happens.

Too bad this is only in the UK (so far)

Meta's "spy glasses"?

Are they talking about pervert glasses?

While I'm not surprised, I think this is yet another showing that the Jenner's really will exploit any and all good will they have for money

“…and if someone covers or damages the LED, the camera is disabled.”

How does this work? How reliable is it?

Kinda funny hearing that from one of the most surveilled countries in the world. Hopefully this grows to be an outright rebuke of all forms of government surveillance they have to endure too.

Good on them for standing up for their clientele.

I expect these restaurants, pubs and theatres to have no CCTV, either, otherwise it'd quite a hypocritical take if they prohibited non-consensual surveillance glasses while keeping non-consensual surveillance cameras. The same way I feel unsafe before someone wearing Duckerberg's glasses, I also feel unsafe before a surveillance camera whose footage Goddess-knows-who is getting access to (not to mention how most "modern" CCTV feeds their images to AI; wonder why most AI video generators get to generate, e.g., "doorbell camera footage" so easily?).

Also, IMHO, the prohibition on Meta glasses should be targeting the manufacturers (corporations such as Meta, but also Google and other companies developing similar aberrations) instead of just the users. Because, when users are the only ones to blame, society risks missing the forest for the trees, as the corps behind these aberrations would be left unbothered enough for them to work on "thinner frames for smartglasses" which would further pave the way for people like me, who have to wear high-myopia prescription glasses, to be lynched for my thin-framed dumbglasses just because human society would be so blinded by their (understandable) rage that they'd be judging me for the pair of glasses in front of my eyes I got no choice but to wear to live in said society (if I had to remove my prescription glasses in order to be allowed in, I wouldn't be able to watch your theatre play or getting to read your damn beverage menu, for example).

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