California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill aimed at smart glasses privacy.
Newsom rejected the measure after it passed the state legislature, saying the bill's language was overbroad. His veto message did not specify which provisions went too far, and the bill's underlying text has not been made public. That leaves open exactly what lawmakers hoped to restrict and what a narrower version might look like.
Calling language "overbroad" is a convenient veto rationale: it concedes the privacy risk behind always-on cameras and microphones worn on someone's face is real, while dodging any commitment to a workable fix. It also means California, a state that often sets the pace on tech regulation, still has no dedicated law for the category - leaving smart glasses to whatever general privacy and recording statutes already apply.
A veto on vague drafting is easy to issue. Writing a bill precise enough to survive one is the actual hard part, and that work now falls back on Sacramento.