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Women in Brussels 'filmed without their knowledge' by men wearing Meta smart glasses
(www.brusselstimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2026
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I think you can ban using such recordings in social media posts and such. The line your have to watch for is news reporters vs social media influencers. But it would at least enable prosecution of the dumb ones who don't even claim to be news reporters...
Yeah, I'd stopped short of noting that it'd prolly be more realistic to enforce regulations on wide-spread sharing / social media hosting of such content. Like in some ways, recording someone in public for whatever reason seems reasonable -- recording interactions with police, for example, being an area that makes a good deal of sense -- but posting those recordings, especially with the implied 'hope' that they go viral / generate notoriety and/or monetized returns, is pretty dicey.
Yeah, it's hard to make a law that stops this, but doesn't get used against actual journalists. And the way the news media is trending more toward being social media influencer isn't helping. Maybe entitling the person to compensation based on what the influencer got might be possible. That would keep at least free journalists out of the picture. And the paid journalists can afford to pay people if something goes viral, or to take the time to get a waiver or something. Or maybe a combination involving secret recordings, since most of the regular news media is pretty obvious.