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How do you stop your smart glasses filming in the toilet?

By Chris Stokel-Walker

25 January 2018

Smart glasses

Smart glasses and body cams are on the rise

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The police are increasingly wearing body cameras, and smart glasses that instantly share your life on social media may one day become the norm. But if they’re capturing our every waking move, what about those private moments we don’t want recorded? One solution could be PrivacEye, a system that tries to learn when to stop filming and when to start again.

The device combines a forward-facing camera with a second pointing at the wearer’s own eye. Whilst filming with the first lens, a type of artificial intelligence algorithm called…

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