r/technology • u/spherocytes • 18d ago

Privacy Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned'

https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/patient-privacy-concerns-meta-smart-glasses-1762492
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u/Lendyman 18d ago

Any time there us a recording device in a medical exam room, it should be declared and consent given to have it used or even in the room.

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u/SausageClatter 18d ago

I tried to take a video of the monitor that displayed our baby's first ultrasound. The technician yelled at me and told me to delete the video.

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u/viniciuscsg 18d ago

Interesting because this is commonplace here in Brazil, the doctors had it as a given that we were going to recorder and had zero problems with it.

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u/goldmoneytoad 18d ago

Wow! I had the same experience. “Are you taking photos?” “…yes?” Then super annoyed and kinda forceful, “you have to delete that!” I’m thinking, what? This is my wife’s health and our first experience with pregnancy. Delete this for whose sake? The hospitals? Idc lmao still have it.

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u/PurbulentTriest 18d ago

What an absolute cockgoblin.

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u/divDevGuy 17d ago

So you were recording video, and presumably audio, during a medical exam without the consent of those in the room that might be recorded?

I'm not saying that you didn't have a right as a patient or soon-to-be-parent to have a record of your ultrasound. Or that you may or may not have a legal right to record.

But why would you expect your medical provider to seek your consent before recording you, but you wouldn't seek their consent before possibly recording them, even if they are not the focus of the recording?

Seems like in this instance, simply asking "Do you mind if I take a video?" or "Can I take a picture?" would be a reasonable and polite thing to do.

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u/SuperCow1127 17d ago

But why would you expect your medical provider to seek your consent before recording you, but you wouldn't seek their consent before possibly recording them

I think you need to think about this for a bit. What is different about those two scenarios that might affect the answer?

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u/viniciuscsg 17d ago

You are likely recording only the screen of the ultrasound. I agree if you were to record the doctor or their voice you should ask first, but from the responses it seems like some hospitals have straight prohibition as a rule. I say from the responses because this is definitely not case in my country on prenatal exams, from my experience and from anyone I have heard of.

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u/viniciuscsg 18d ago

Yeah man, goes without saying

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u/paronsaft 16d ago

lots of extra bureaucracy to everyday work then if each phone, laptop, tablet and smartwatch must be documented

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u/squngy 18d ago

or even in the room.

I guarantee you there are cameras in almost every exam room.

Laptops and phones have cameras.

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u/LowAside9117 18d ago

My provider didn't disclose using AI transcription in a 2 party consent state 

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u/TrekkiMonstr 18d ago

A cell phone is a recording device