Nepali lawmaker faces privacy backlash over videos of children filmed with smart glasses
Summary
Nepali lawmaker Ashika Tamang has faced backlash after posting smart-glasses videos of children on Facebook without blurring their faces. Rights advocates say the posts violated children’s privacy protections under Nepal’s laws, and Tamang later admitted her mistake.
Key Points
- Ashika Tamang’s Facebook videos of children, filmed with smart glasses, drew widespread criticism after one clip showed a child’s face clearly and another featured a boy handling a frog.
- Rights advocates and lawyers said Nepal’s Children’s Act 2018 and Individual Privacy Act 2018 protect children’s privacy and require consent before recording or publishing such footage.
- Tamang later blurred the girl’s face in the video and admitted to Kantipur that she should have protected the child’s privacy and would not repeat the mistake.
- The controversy has renewed scrutiny of the use of camera-equipped smart glasses by elected representatives and the legal limits of recording people without their knowledge.
