New Delhi, May 29 -- A swirl of questions arose this week after video clips went viral online that showed workers wearing headbands mounted with what looked like cameras.

One was of a garments facility that had rows of people with digital crowns whirring away at work.

What was being recorded and why?

An X post by home-services startup Pronto offered a partial answer; it was using such devices as a pilot run to record household tasks, it said, as part of an opt-in package for customers in line with India's new privacy law.

Such camera-loaded headbands are designed to gather videographic data on task processes as AI training inputs.

In general, even if their wearers have signed consent forms, the idea takes us into a grey zone of labou...