{"id":1030471,"date":"2026-08-22T09:15:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030471"},"modified":"2026-08-22T09:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T03:50:51","slug":"uk-cinemas-restricting-meta-ai-and-other-smart-glasses-over-piracy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/22\/uk-cinemas-restricting-meta-ai-and-other-smart-glasses-over-piracy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"UK cinemas restricting Meta AI and other smart glasses over piracy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cinema operators in Britain are introducing policies to prohibit or restrict camera-enabled smart glasses, including Meta&#8217;s AI-powered eyewear, the UK Cinema Association said on \u200cThursday, \u2060citing privacy \u2060and film piracy concerns. <\/p>\n<p>The move follows \u200bgrowing scrutiny of smart glasses over their \u200brecording capabilities, with courts in England and Wales this month prohibiting \u200bMeta smart glasses because \u2060of restrictions \u200con taking images \u200band videos \u200bin courts. <\/p>\n<p>Policies vary \u2060by venue, with operators introducing prohibitions \u200band\/or restrictions rather than a \u200bsingle industry-wide rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinema operators in Britain are introducing policies to prohibit or restrict camera-enabled smart glasses, including Meta&#8217;s AI-powered eyewear, the UK Cinema Association said on \u200cThursday, \u2060citing privacy \u2060and film piracy concerns. The move follows \u200bgrowing scrutiny of smart glasses over their \u200brecording capabilities, with courts in England and Wales this month prohibiting \u200bMeta smart glasses because \u2060of restrictions \u200con taking images \u200band videos \u200bin courts. Policies vary \u2060by venue, with operators introducing prohibitions \u200band\/or restrictions rather than a \u200bsingle industry-wide rule.<\/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-1030471","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\/1030471","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=1030471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030498,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030471\/revisions\/1030498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}