Please take off your smart glasses: On consent and the right to silence

I recently encountered smart glasses in real life for the first time. Not in a shop, at a technology conference, or in a demonstration video. Someone I was spending time with was wearing them. I didn't know that at first. We were walking through the city when, quite casually, they demonstrated what the glasses could do. There was nothing sinister about it. If anything, the ordinariness of the moment was what stayed with me. Here was a device with cameras, microphones and AI capabilities, sitting on someone's face and looking enough like normal glasses that I had not given them a second thought. Since then, I've found myself returning to a surprisingly simple question. Would I ask someone to take off their smart glasses when they came to my home for dinner? I think I would. I'm also trying to understand why. When looking and recording look the same We have developed reasonably well understood social conventions around smartphones. Someone at dinner can record our conversation on their…