{"id":1028451,"date":"2026-08-13T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028451"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T02:05:45","slug":"german-advocacy-group-lodges-criminal-complaint-over-meta-ai-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/13\/german-advocacy-group-lodges-criminal-complaint-over-meta-ai-glasses\/","title":{"rendered":"German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A German advocacy group has filed a criminal complaint against Meta \u200band other companies selling the \u200btechnology group&#8217;s AI glasses in Germany, arguing the devices \u200bviolate privacy laws. <\/p>\n<p>Digital rights group HateAid said in a statement on Wednesday that the launch of the devices, the Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer in particular, broke German digital privacy laws, in the \u200clatest sign \u2060of legal \u2060scrutiny in a nation where the right to privacy is highly valued. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no place to \u200bescape from smart glasses. You have to expect at any moment to be filmed and \u200bthen exposed on the internet,&#8221; said HateAid managing director Josephine Ballon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German advocacy group has filed a criminal complaint against Meta \u200band other companies selling the \u200btechnology group&#8217;s AI glasses in Germany, arguing the devices \u200bviolate privacy laws. Digital rights group HateAid said in a statement on Wednesday that the launch of the devices, the Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer in particular, broke German digital privacy laws, in the \u200clatest sign \u2060of legal \u2060scrutiny in a nation where the right to privacy is highly valued. &#8220;There&#8217;s no place to \u200bescape from smart glasses. You have to expect at any moment to be filmed and \u200bthen exposed on the internet,&#8221; said HateAid managing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028472,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028451\/revisions\/1028472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}