aceThe eyes have it: Reform politician’s ‘smart glasses’ prompt calls for ban in Westminster
It was a flowing speech packed full of precise statistics – but Jason O’Connell, a Reform UK Senedd member, was not quite the gifted orator he had first appeared. The periodic flashing in his spectacles seemed to give the game away as he spoke for five minutes in the Senedd chamber without a glance at his notes. “Cardiff reviewed 192 roads, following 933 requests, and only four routes have returned to 30mph,” he said as he led the party’s charge to abolish 20mph traffic zones. “£38.3m wasted to implement this po…
Discreet AI smart glasses may enable unnoticed filming of private parliamentary business and quietly shape what legislators say, leaving rules and security checks struggling to keep up.
The use of teleprompter glasses was only suspected, and the article says there was no suggestion that the glasses were recording, so the harms described are potential risks rather than demonstrated incidents.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-14
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