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We had to ban these at my workplace.
They were already prohibited due to our existing mobile policies, but we had to especially ban them whenever someone brought them in.
Did you already know they were creepy, or did they out themselves?
Someone found the glasses charging. I don't know the individual, I can't even remember their name, and I've never interacted with them. As far as I am aware, it's a simple manner of not allowing someone to have a camera strapped to their head when working.
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, they were a foreign national who claimed they needed to use them for translation purposes. However, such an excuse can in theory be used by someone trying to commit espionage, so we cannot tolerate it. It was just recommended to their department to provide translated materials to help them grasp work-related terminology.
I imagine Andrew brought them on day 1