Norway is reportedly weighing a partial ban on smart glasses in public spaces.
The news comes from a report that surfaced this week, flagged widely on tech discussion boards, saying Norwegian officials are considering restrictions on smart glasses. The report is light on specifics: no bill text, no named officials, and no detail on which public settings or device categories would be covered. What's confirmed, for now, is the headline claim itself: a partial ban is reportedly on the table, not that one has been passed or even formally proposed.
Smart glasses have struggled with a trust problem since Google Glass flopped a decade ago, and Meta's Ray-Ban line has revived the same complaint: the recording indicator is small and easy to miss, so bystanders often don't know they're on camera. A government moving to restrict the category, even partially, would mark one of the first times a country targets the device class itself, rather than facial-recognition software or data collection after the fact.
Until there's an actual draft to read, treat this as a signal of where regulators' attention is heading, not a done deal.