Editing Augmented reality (section)

===Privacy concerns===
Augmented reality devices that use cameras for 3D tracking or video passthrough depend on the ability of the device to record and analyze the environment in real time. Because of this, there are potential legal concerns over privacy.

In late 2024, Meta's collaboration with Ray-Ban on smart glasses faced heightened scrutiny due to significant privacy concerns. A notable incident involved two Harvard students who developed a program named I-XRAY, which utilized the glasses' camera in conjunction with facial recognition software to identify individuals in real-time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Song |first=Victoria |date=2024-10-02 |title=College students used Meta's smart glasses to dox people in real time |url=https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24260262/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-doxxing-privacy |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=The Verge |language=en}}</ref>

According to recent studies, users are especially concerned that augmented reality smart glasses might compromise the privacy of others, potentially causing peers to become uncomfortable or less open during interactions.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rauschnabel |first1=Philipp A. |last2=He |first2=Jun |last3=Ro |first3=Young K. |date=2018-11-01 |title=Antecedents to the adoption of augmented reality smart glasses: A closer look at privacy risks |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0148296318303849 |journal=Journal of Business Research |volume=92 |pages=374–384 |doi=10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.08.008 |issn=0148-2963}}</ref>

While the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]] allows for such recording in the name of public interest, the constant recording of an AR device makes it difficult to do so without also recording outside of the public domain. Legal complications would be found in areas where a right to a certain amount of privacy is expected or where copyrighted media are displayed.

In terms of individual privacy, there exists the ease of access to information that one should not readily possess about a given person. This is accomplished through facial recognition technology. Assuming that AR automatically passes information about persons that the user sees, there could be anything seen from social media, criminal record, and marital status.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1145/2638728.2641709 |chapter=Augmented reality |title=Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct Publication - UbiComp '14 Adjunct |pages=1283–1288 |year=2014 |last1=Roesner |first1=Franziska |last2=Kohno |first2=Tadayoshi |last3=Denning |first3=Tamara |last4=Calo |first4=Ryan |last5=Newell |first5=Bryce Clayton |s2cid=15190154 |isbn=978-1-4503-3047-3 }}</ref>