California bill would criminalize secret recording by smart glasses in workplaces

California state senator Eloise Gómez Reyes introduced Senate Bill 1130, the Wearable Device Privacy Protection Act, on February 17, 2026. The bill would add Penal Code sections making it a crime, punishable by up to $2,500 in fines or one year in jail, to secretly record audio or video with a wearable device such as smart glasses inside a business without consent, and would ban disabling any recording-indicator light. The bill was enrolled with Assembly amendments concurred on August 31, 2026.