🚨 Most people haven't realized it, but without proper legal oversight, AI glasses might already be supporting privacy harm and CRIMINAL activity: Last year, @AlexanderNL, a Dutch journalist, went to Amsterdam's financial district using AI glasses. After seconds-long interactions with random people on the street, the facial recognition technology powering his glasses could identify the person using publicly available data from the internet. His goal was to demonstrate how invasive facial recognition technology has become, especially since anyone can wear a device that enables real-time identification. Many people forget, but besides the more 'hyped' use cases, real-time identification can also be used to support criminal activity. For example, someone may use these types of AI glasses to identify the victim after a few seconds of small talk, then pretend to be an old acquaintance to steal or commit a violent crime. Most smart glasses have a small green light at the upper corner to signal that the camera is on, but my guess is that the majority of people will not notice it (that's what we see in the video, too). Also, more recently, I have seen smart glasses WITHOUT the green light (which would likely be illegal in some countries and U.S. states). The video is from November 2024, but has been circulating again one year later. I would say that from legal and regulatory perspectives, one year later, the problem remains the same, and little to nothing has been done to protect people from AI-led privacy invasion on the streets (which might also facilitate other types of harm and violent crime). I would also say that, in general, we are WORSE in December 2025 than we were in November 2024. Why? There is a global deregulatory trend in AI (pushed by the U.S.), and, through the Digital Omnibus, the EU is proposing changes to the GDPR and the EU AI Act that are detrimental to the protection of fundamental rights, including, of course, privacy. Despite all the odds... I'm cautiously optimistic that the pendulum will swing in the opposite direction in 2026, as deregulated AI clearly benefits no one (except tech billionaires). - 👉 Most people have no idea why privacy matters, ESPECIALLY when AI is everywhere. Make sure to share this video. ...