21st CENTURY HEADLINES: UK Venues Ban Meta Smart Glasses En Masse.
“Meta glasses seem to breach this code, and common sense, by enabling surreptitious surveillance, so our instinct is to say turn off the cameras. This is akin to our efforts to stop audible playing of videos in our pubs, which also invades people’s space.”
Wetherspoons says it has CCTV cameras inside its pubs for security reasons, but that data is strictly controlled by legislation.
Upmarket London restaurateur Jeremy King tells The Guardian that he is banning Meta glasses from his restaurants, which include Arlington, The Park, and Simpsons in the Strand.
“I would never knowingly allow any invasion of guest privacy other than with the eyes we were born with,” King says.
I guess Geordi La Forge isn’t drinking there when he’s on shore leave. But otherwise, it’s a rare moment of common sense in the UK.