{"id":1040478,"date":"2026-10-03T08:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040478"},"modified":"2026-10-03T08:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:39:48","slug":"dutch-eyewear-chain-hans-anders-halts-sale-of-meta-glasses-citing-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/03\/dutch-eyewear-chain-hans-anders-halts-sale-of-meta-glasses-citing-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders halts sale of Meta glasses, citing privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta&#8217;s Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns, in one of the first such moves by a retailer. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This decision follows the ongoing public and political debate surrounding smart glasses and the questions being raised about the conditions under which this technology can be used,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Hans Anders chain said. <\/p>\n<p>A growing Dutch outcry over the glasses mirrors a broader backlash against smart glasses equipped with cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest Dutch eyewear retail chains said on Friday it had suspended sales of Meta&#8217;s Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium amid growing privacy concerns, in one of the first such moves by a retailer. &#8220;This decision follows the ongoing public and political debate surrounding smart glasses and the questions being raised about the conditions under which this technology can be used,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Hans Anders chain said. A growing Dutch outcry over the glasses mirrors a broader backlash against smart glasses equipped with cameras.<\/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-1040478","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\/1040478","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=1040478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040499,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040478\/revisions\/1040499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}