India, July 7 -- Everyone's worried about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses turning people into walking surveillance tools. Fewer are asking why B by Lenskart, India's homegrown AI smart glasses, enters the same legal grey area where Indian privacy rules for wearable cameras are still evolving.

B by Lenskart is engineered with a Sony camera and operates on Google Gemini, aiming to be India's response to Meta's smart glasses. It promises hands-free photo capture, live translation and UPI payments through voice commands. However, there are still no India-specific consent rules governing bystander recording through AI smart glasses.

India's Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act requires consent for processing personal data, but public-place...