Meta Glasses Create Biometric Gray Area for Privacy Enforcers

The Texas Attorney General’s investigation into potential privacy violations by Meta Platforms’ AI smart glasses signals how tricky it will be to enforce protections around unfettered biometric data collection by big tech companies and their users.

Meta isn’t the only company developing AI-powered wearables. Both Google and Apple have signaled plans to roll out AI-powered eyewear in the near future, leaving state regulators more incentive to grapple with the emerging harms. Texas, Illinois, and Washington all have standalone biometric privacy laws while several other states have escalated that data to a protected category. But as biometric data and its collection ...