❗️Meta's smart glasses could be banned in Germany and the rest of the EU.
Hamburg data protection commissioner Thomas Fuchs, Meta's lead regulator in Germany, says his office tested the glasses, found the recording LED too easy to miss, and concluded that filming people in public with them breaks data protection law. It is already issuing fines.
His verdict: a camera disguised as an everyday object is illegal to sell or own in Germany. Only the Bundesnetzagentur can order that ban; it is reportedly reviewing.
France's CNIL warned about the whole category in May, and the European Data Protection Board's report on smart glasses is due this summer.
Seen a post earlier about how the music you loved between 12 and 21 basically becomes your music for life because your brain’s changing the most then.
Apparently it’s real.
They call it the reminiscence bump. Songs from that window get locked in deeper than anything that comes after.
Tied to the people, the first times, the version of you that was still figuring itself out.
I’ve felt it for years without knowing why. Certain tracks from school and my early 20s still hit different.
Can listen to better music now but those ones just sit heavier.
Not pure nostalgia. More like they caught you at the right time and never fully left.