{"id":1041409,"date":"2026-10-07T08:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041409"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:31:31","slug":"australia-probes-app-used-in-cheap-smart-glasses-over-privacy-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/07\/australia-probes-app-used-in-cheap-smart-glasses-over-privacy-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia probes app used in cheap smart glasses over privacy fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is investigating how and where the firm behind an app used in popular low-cost smart glasses collects and stores personal data, the country&#8217;s data protection watchdog said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>China-based Shenzhen Qingcheng is the maker of the HeyCyan smart glasses application, used in the Anko smart glasses sold for as little as AU$89 (US$62) at shops like K-mart across Australia. <\/p>\n<p>Australia&#8217;s Information Commissioner (OAIC) said it had sent preliminary inquiries to several companies involved in making the glasses last month &#8212; including Meta, Kmart, Google and Shenzhen Qingcheng &#8212; about how they recorded data and where it was stored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is investigating how and where the firm behind an app used in popular low-cost smart glasses collects and stores personal data, the country&#8217;s data protection watchdog said Wednesday. China-based Shenzhen Qingcheng is the maker of the HeyCyan smart glasses application, used in the Anko smart glasses sold for as little as AU$89 (US$62) at shops like K-mart across Australia. Australia&#8217;s Information Commissioner (OAIC) said it had sent preliminary inquiries to several companies involved in making the glasses last month &#8212; including Meta, Kmart, Google and Shenzhen Qingcheng &#8212; about how they recorded data and where it was stored.<\/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-1041409","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\/1041409","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=1041409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041439,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041409\/revisions\/1041439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}