Norway to Crack Down on Use of Smart Glasses
Officials plan an expert group and urge retailers to pause sales until legal clarity, as Meta readies facial recognition for smart glasses.
- On Tuesday, August 25, 2026, Norway announced plans to regulate smart glasses and similar devices, considering a ban on facial recognition features in public spaces.
- Digitalisation Minister Karianne Tung cited artificial intelligence integrated into cameras and microphones on everyday items like glasses and earbuds, warning these create risks of monitoring people in public spaces.
- "We can see that people's private lives and privacy are coming under pressure," Tung said, explaining she wants stricter regulation of smart glasses than currently exists.
- Finn Lutzow-Holm Myrstad of The Norwegian Consumer Council hailed the move but warned that "the potential for abuse is enormous" regarding Meta's facial recognition technology.
- The government plans to appoint an expert group to advise on consumer protection while urging both public and private sectors to develop their own guidelines for these technologies.
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Norway's Minister for Digitalization is appointing an expert group to advise on how to protect consumers from new technologies.
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Norway to crack down on use of smart glasses
Smart glasses allow the wearer to shoot photos and videos, listen to music, take phone calls, translate signs in a foreign language, project text or maps into your field of view, or interact with an integrated AI assistant.
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Norway plans to regulate the use of smart glasses and other similar devices, and is considering banning functions that allow facial recognition in public spaces. “We can see that people’s privacy and privacy are under pressure by new technologies and, therefore, I want to regulate smart glasses and similar devices more strictly than at present,” said the Minister of Digitization, Karianne Tung, in a statement. “This could, for example, mean bann…
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