Guterres’s A/81/351 report asks states to ban coercive neurotechnology in justice systems and to treat neural data as highly sensitive. It does not name XR firms, but its consumer-data warning reaches the EMG bands and sensor-heavy headsets the industry is building.
Austria’s Federal Administrative Court overturned the expulsion of a Vienna student who kept wearing Meta glasses in class, finding no evidence of recordings. The directorate has filed an extraordinary appeal, and Minister Christoph Wiederkehr says a law letting individual schools ban the glasses may follow if the case is lost.
CDA and PRO asked the Dutch cabinet to raise a public-use ban, and in PRO’s case sales limits, at the October 12-13 informal EU telecom meeting. The Irish presidency’s published programme does not mention smart glasses, and the cabinet has not replied.
New York vouchers every recording-capable pair, Maryland’s federal courts lock up nearly all devices from November 2 but exempt jurors, and Illinois adds smart eyewear to a device policy.
Norway’s government wants a temporary ban on AI glasses in schools, gyms, clinics and possibly parks and malls. Its minister says it is a high priority, with no set timeline.
RNIB and Guide Dogs want venues to treat AI glasses as a reasonable adjustment for blind users, while a UK Parliament petition to ban their sale crossed 10,000 signatures on October 5 and now needs a government response.
Kmart has pulled its $89 Anko camera glasses from its Australian website a day after a privacy probe into the HeyCyan app maker, but it has not said whether stores or other sellers are clear.
Cybernews says the Meta AI app asks for 70 Android permissions, 18 of them dangerous, more than six rival smart-glasses apps. Exodus Privacy confirms the count, but its report covers version 289 from September 11, and Meta’s app carries just one tracker.
Carly Kind’s office is formally investigating Shenzhen Qingcheng, the developer of the HeyCyan app behind cheap camera glasses sold via Kmart, Big W Marketplace and Amazon. Meta, Google and Kmart got only preliminary inquiries.
The third-party Ray-Ban Meta AI app renamed itself Avenkin, and an October 4 merge adds an organisation-enforced face blur to recorded Field Assist jobs that has not yet run on a real recording.