The pervert glasses will first run object detection, detect your face and then blur it.

Soooooo...

Alternative suggestion: they should be banned.

No. They should be banned completely.

Oooor.. hear me out. Ban smart glasses, excepting with very limited uses for helping disabled folks

We all need to normalize walking out of meetings and other social engagements when we see these in public. Make them feel weird for wearing it. If in a professional setting: "I'm sorry I'm not comfortable proceeding with this conversation / meeting while being recorded"... "They arnt recording"...."There is no way for me to fully verify that. I would be happy to continue if they are put away, otherwise we will need to postpone."

And then stick to your boundaries.

Has there ever been any intelligent thought coming from Australian governments/politicians/authorities that has anything to do with technology? Just wondering because isn't this the same country where a leading politician once said that the laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only laws that apply in Australia are those of Australia...

Hint: Something like this can only be enforced if you ban smart glasses on which the user can install any software they like (e.g. free and open source software). And if you go down that route, what is stopping governments from doing the same thing to other computers too?

Eh, ok. And how will this work exactly?

The glasses will record everyone, send their faces to a third party or government server...

(to check 'blur or not, of course, of course, nothing else. And then we'll delete them again - pinky promise!)

Ah yes. For privacy.

Why do they need cameras to begin with? Wtf are these even for? They failed miserably last time around, why are the tech companies trying again?

It really seems like tech "journalists" and tech "watchdogs" don't know shit about tech. Something offensive (as in vs. defensive) isn't a reasonable solution in any way.

Maybe we could just blur the vision of all the users

Someone will make a hack to unblur faces and it'll be back to square 1.

Peeping tom promises to only look at victims bodies, and never identify them by their faces

Ah yes, make them useless for filming police abuse, great idea.

Pervertglasses should punch the face of their whearer

They'll probably add some dumb shit like "send the unredacted face to Meta for to check if your face is on the opt-out list, and blur if it is".

Then send it to AFP ASIS and ASIO to check against their lists too.

And of course, log it for themselves under mandatory data retention laws.

Wait until OP finds out flock is rolling out in Australia too. What is privacy laws.

should we use bluetooth jammers everywhere now? i think so.

I think this whole topic is a beat-up. There is nothing here to debate. For a start, the talk should not be about "smart" glasses. Most of the glasses under debate are not smart at all. Just a camera that can be turned on or off. Simple technology that is not capable of any sort of smarts - certainly not blurring faces.

I genuinely don't see how we can legislate these things. They're out there and from a legal standpoint, are no different to any other camera you can buy. Even forgetting the 'smart' adjective and making the talk about glasses would be limiting. You can get cameras embedded into hats, necklaces, broaches/tiepins. Say you make all these illegal, how do you define them? Cameras you wear? suddenly the bodycams worn by the kids at Woolies or police are illegal. Go-Pros attached to your head/chest are illegal.

What if you have a shirt pocket, and the top of your phone is sticking out and recording. Are you going to make phone cameras illegal? I think this horse has bolted.