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KennyBlanken • today at 6:30 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Smart eyeglasses are illegal in my state, unquestionably.

The law mandates that any "secret" recording is illegal. This is different from the usual standard, which is whether someone is recording people who are in a place where they have an expectation of privacy or not.

It doesn't matter if you're on the street, in someone's home, a courtroom. A tiny little LED doesn't rectify that. Nobody expects someone's eyeglasses to be recording them.

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shagie • today at 2:16 PM

I suspect you're referring to Massachusetts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_call_recording_laws#...

    Massachusetts (only "secret" recordings are banned, but is the only state without a "public location" exception. Despite having a 1968 law imposing general bans on taping wire and oral communications, it was later ruled to violate the First Amendment in the conditions espoused in a case filed by Project Veritas in 2018.)
The case mentioned was https://web.archive.org/web/20211110033315/https://apnews.co...

This also be more related to recording phone calls and specific conversations.

https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/massachusetts-recording-law

It appears to be more nuanced than "you can't walk around with a camera recording in Massachusetts."

Ylpertnodi • today at 8:13 AM

Which state bans photography in public? I'm sure quite a few 1a auditors would be interested in travelling there.