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Dutch Privacy Advocates Petition Courts to Ban Meta Artificial Intelligence Smart Glasses

Digital privacy campaigners in the Netherlands are preparing a legal challenge to formally ban the commercial sale of Meta's new artificial intelligence glasses, arguing the devices severely violate European Union data protection standards.
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