Good morning. It’s Tuesday, August 11. Courts across England and Wales are now confiscating Meta smart glasses at the door, joining pubs, restaurants and New York’s courts in treating the recording glasses as a genuine privacy hazard rather than a novelty.
Today we are covering:
Courts in England and Wales began confiscating Meta smart glasses at the door, following a similar ban in New York, amid backlash over covert recording
Western Australia Police ran Australia’s first live AI facial recognition trial, scanning over 130,000 faces in Perth and Fremantle, drawing privacy criticism
OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program with two new access tiers and a purpose-built GPT-5.6-Cyber model for vetted security researchers

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