They’re selling like hotcakes, but video-capable smart glasses from Meta and others are also surfacing inconvenient legal truths, with Australia’s privacy commissioner promising policy changes as legal experts concede there is little legal recourse for those concerned about the glasses’ use. Smart glasses give sports people the opportunity to film themselves in action. Could AI data harvesting provide a lifeline? There is strong momentum behind smart wearables and, with Google set to launch ‘intelligent eyewear’ later this year and Apple rumoured to do the same next year, there is every chance smart glasses will become endemic long before local laws catch up to their use. Kind said tighter regulations would require data collection to be “fair and reasonable”, creating “additional hurdles for the developers of surveillance wearables”.