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Google’s Gemini-powered smart glasses are designed to stop taking photos or video if someone covers or tampers with their recording light, Help Net Security reports. When Gemini is asked about a scene, the glasses are also designed to redact bystanders’ faces before processing the image.

Google says camera visuals are excluded from Gemini History, AI training and ad targeting, and that data is encrypted on the glasses and in transit. These are design intentions, not a demonstrated guarantee: the article says the tamper detection and face redaction are not yet independently tested, and Private AI Compute has not reached the glasses.

Discuss: Are visible recording lights and automatic face redaction enough to make camera-enabled AI glasses acceptable in shared spaces, or should they be kept out of places where people cannot meaningfully opt out?

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