Where smart-glasses recording is banned
Rooms, not countries. Each line is a rule somebody actually wrote down, and the piece that checked it.
| Where | What the rule says | Who set it | Where it is worked through |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cinemas, gyms, hospitals | Three different reasons arriving at the same instruction: copyright in the auditorium, nudity in the changing room, patient confidentiality on the ward. | Individual operators | Read the piece Sources last checked |
| Theatres and concerts | A century-old ban on recording the performance is doing the work, not a privacy rule. | ATG and other operators | Read the piece Sources last checked |
| Pubs, bars and restaurants | A pub chain asked drinkers to take them off to protect the customer, not the show. Unenforceable in practice, and that is the point of the story. | Individual operators | Read the piece Sources last checked |
| Schools | Bans are being written into the same policies that already cover phones, which is why they arrived so quickly. | Schools and districts | Read the piece Sources last checked |
| Hospitals (US) | HIPAA does not bind a visitor. What binds the ward is the hospital's own policy, and it is stricter than the law. | 45 CFR Part 160; hospital policy | Read the piece Sources last checked |
| Aircraft cabins | Only one airline made filming the crew a breach of the ticket itself. The rest ask. | Airline conditions of carriage | Read the piece Sources last checked |
| Airports and security lines | The security line is the one place where a wearable is treated like any other camera and told to come off. | Airport and TSA-equivalent rules | Read the piece Sources last checked |
| Courthouses | A New York courthouse will hold the glasses at the door - confiscation, not a behaviour rule. | Court administrative order | Read the piece Sources last checked |
| Conventions | A UK Comic-Con promoter banned them outright, and the reason given was not photography. | Event organiser | Read the piece Sources last checked |
| The short answer | The useful answer is rooms, not places: every ban on this page is a room somebody is responsible for. | - | Read the piece Sources last checked |
Citing this table
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What this page is
Every line summarises an article on this site and links it. Nothing here is a legal finding of its own, and no cell says more than the piece behind it does. Where a rule is set by an operator rather than a statute, the column says so.