❗️Meta's smart glasses could be banned in Germany and the rest of the EU.

Hamburg data protection commissioner Thomas Fuchs, Meta's lead regulator in Germany, says his office tested the glasses, found the recording LED too easy to miss, and concluded that filming people in public with them breaks data protection law. It is already issuing fines.

His verdict: a camera disguised as an everyday object is illegal to sell or own in Germany. Only the Bundesnetzagentur can order that ban; it is reportedly reviewing.

France's CNIL warned about the whole category in May, and the European Data Protection Board's report on smart glasses is due this summer.