Euronews: calls to ban Meta's smart glasses spotlight Europe's wider surveillance gap

Euronews reported on August 21, 2026 that momentum to ban Meta's smart glasses in individual EU countries risks distracting from broader surveillance-technology gaps across Europe. The piece noted a survey in which 67% of 2,128 French adults said smart glasses posed a privacy risk, and situated the German and other national actions within the EU AI Act's restrictions on real-time biometric identification in public spaces.