Overview
- City councillors backed a motion from the Green/Volt faction to explicitly prohibit smart glasses in Bäderlandschaft Potsdam facilities.
- The rule targets data glasses that can record video and audio unobtrusively and that are increasingly shared on social media without subjects’ knowledge.
- Officials said the ban will be written into the pools’ house- and bathing regulations and will expand an existing prohibition on image recordings.
- Potsdam plans to train pool and sauna staff to recognise smart glasses so personnel can enforce the rule when the regulatory text is updated.
- The change aims to protect people in swimwear from being filmed without consent and follows broader concerns about wearable cameras and privacy in public spaces.