Paris prosecutors are investigating smart glasses-enabled sexual harassment.
They’ve opened “at least one criminal probe” following complaints about the glasses being used to film women on the street in public without their consent, Reuters reports. France’s data protection authority also says businesses are “increasingly” asking if they can ban smart glasses at work, similar to a ban under consideration in Australia. [Link: France probes misuse of smart glasses in sexual harassment cases |
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