Meta AI Glasses use will usually breach EU privacy rules, German watchdog says
( September 10, 2026, 15:10 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Meta Platforms’ Ray-Ban AI Glasses will "generally" not be allowed to record people outside users’ close family and friends under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, the Hamburg data protection authority said in a report Thursday. The glasses don't give people being recorded enough notice for users to obtain informed consent, it said. Meta will also usually lack a legal basis to use those recordings to train its AI models. The report is attached and the ress release is below:...
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