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"Putting the Brazil into a Brazilian": Woman Notices Beautician Wearing Meta Smart Glasses

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A post from Ed Driscoll (at InstaPundit), pointing to a PetaPixel (Matt Growcoot) article:

Ever since the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses arrived on the market, the elephant in the room has always been: what if someone uses them for clandestine recording?

And it struck one New York woman who was attending a Brazilian wax appointment at the [European] Wax Center and noticed midway through proceedings that the beautician was wearing a pair of the glasses that are capable of recording video and still images….

The European Wax Center … tells the Washington Post that the waxer's glasses were "powered off at the time of service." …

I was quite amused by Ed's summary (the "Putting …" part), and thought I'd pass it along.

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution.