For years, the smartphone was the device that kept compliance teams up at night. Employers learned to manage it: no phones on the production floor, no recording in meetings, lock it in your locker. That playbook assumed one thing—that you could see the device. Smart glasses enabled with artificial intelligence (AI) have quietly broken that assumption.

Quick Hits

• AI-enabled smart glasses create workplace compliance risks by enabling discreet recording, data capture, transcription, and AI analysis in settings where traditional smartphone policies may not apply.
• Employers may want to update recording and confidentiality rules to address wearable devices while accounting for consent laws, biometric privacy, trade secrets, investigations, and third-party data handling.
• Employers may want to ensure that restrictions are narrowly tailored to comply with labor laws and to preserve processes for disability accommodations, meeting protocols, and consistent manager enforcement.

The Smartphone Isn’t the Only Compliance Problem

AI-enabled glasses look like ordinary eyewear. But depending on the model, they can take photos, record video and audio, livestream, transcribe conversations, translate speech, and send what they capture to an AI assistant for analysis—all hands-free, and often with little more than a small indicator light to signal that anything is happening.

As these devices move from novelty to mainstream, employers are fielding new questions: Can an employee wear them...

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