Overview
- Potsdam's city council voted Wednesday to add an explicit ban on Smart Glasses—eyewear with cameras and microphones—to the house and bathing rules for the city's pools.
- City pool managers said the change responds to videos that allegedly show covert recordings of young women in pools being shared online and that staff will be sensitized and trained to identify the devices.
- Berlin's pool operators said existing prohibitions on photography and filming already cover Smart Glasses and reported no known cases in their facilities.
- Enforcement is difficult because modern Smart Glasses look almost identical to ordinary eyewear, which makes on-the-spot detection by staff and security hard without specific training.
- The move follows wider concerns about groups causing discomfort for women in public baths and shows how fast small, wearable cameras can amplify privacy violations when footage is posted on social platforms.