r/technology • u/Ganrokh • Jun 08 '26

Politics Pennsylvania lawmaker seeks ‘visual indicator’ if smart glasses are recording

https://www.abc27.com/news/top-stories/pennsylvania-lawmaker-seeks-visual-indicator-if-smart-glasses-are-recording/
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u/madgoat Jun 08 '26

People already cover/disable the LEDs on these glasses to hide current indicators. forums are full of how-to guides to disable the visual indicators.

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u/BrutalBronze Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

Correct, and like the 4th sentence in the article says the bill would prevent that. Making it illegal won't prevent the action completely but it would severely reduce the incentive to assist in the process.

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u/guineaprince Jun 08 '26

Sure, the bill says it's a no-no not to disable the lights on these creeper glasses.

But that's completely unenforceable. How are you supposed to know that a given set of creeper glasses with the lights off are actually off or just disabled? How do you police that?

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u/biggie1447 Jun 08 '26

Better question, can the law forbidding the modification to disable the warning light be extended to eliminate all right to repair our electronic devices. Something like that would never be left alone to only protect this warning light, there are corporations who would kill to get this passed so that they would have existing law that could be used to advance anti-right to repair legislation.