AR glasses blur the lines of when it's obvious a company is collecting your data, privacy expert says

Pop-ups, privacy notices, and consent checks provide a tiny bit of order in our unwieldy digital world, especially when it comes to pictures and videos of you. Some company-issued notifications, for example, might prompt you to agree to a platform or organization’s use of your likeness in a captured photo.

It’s harder to read that kind of fine print, however, with an unfamiliar pair of glasses—specifically augmented-reality (AR) ones. Our digital social contract becomes even more difficult to enforce if there are a million people with stylish eyewear that’s capable of recording you instantly.

“How do you roll that out, when you have, say, a million individuals with glasses just walking around, living their lives? Are they to wear T-shirts or signage that says, ‘Hey, I’m not myopic, I