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Comment by nnutter

5 hours ago

I don't like it but it's totally normal, especially for youth, to have their cell phones out in locker rooms. Targeting only glasses with this concern is largely out of touch with current behavior.

That isn't normal and it's actively enforced against in gyms and pools where I live.

Glasses are passively recording. Recording with a phone is active (for the most part). You need to take it out and point it at what you are recording...

  • > That isn't normal

    Every gym I've been to is full of people with phones out in the locker room, from cheap chain gyms to the nicer athletic club I currently go to. My experience is much closer to GP.

    > Glasses are passively recording

    All the smart glasses I know of have a light on when recording. My phone does not and can be much more discreet (subject to the fact that everyone has a phone out already).

    I agree that if a location is actively banning phone use patrons should absolutely also be asked to take off smart glasses.

My children's school have an interesting way of dealing with the ever growing list of devices they need a policy for. They borrowed the police term "data carrying devices" and wrote a policy based on that. When Metas glasses started to be come a problem no policy change was needed for the school, they were automatically covered.

That's probably the best solution, deal with the functionality, not the device type.