Carmi Levy

So I think this is a lesson in courts, just like they have rules or acceptable use rules about electronics being brought into the courtroom, like

a smartphone or a laptop, I think they have to update those rules to include smart glasses because unlike a smartphone, it's almost impossible to tell when someone is using smart glasses for this purpose.

If I hold up a smartphone and I pointed at you, you know, but if I'm just wearing a pair of smart glasses on my face and I've got speakers in my ears or I'm looking at you with a camera, you wouldn't know.

So, you know, courts have to kind of get into the 21st century here and

and adapt to this technology because clearly people are trying to rig the system here.

It does.

It tilts the playing field unfairly and it's an unfair use of technology to gain advantage.

And clearly the courts, not just in London, but everywhere, have to figure this out.

Because smart glasses are becoming really popular and they are becoming increasingly unobtrusive.

And, you know, to the point that at some point we won't be carrying smartphones anymore because that functionality will be built into the glasses that we wear.

What do we do then?

How do we protect our privacy?

And quite frankly, how do we protect the integrity of the legal process?

It's a problem that has to be dealt with now because it's happening in courtrooms now.

Yeah, the book was originally self-published by the author, and then it was picked up by the Hachette book group, which is very common.

It's sort of in the era of AI, book publishers are looking for new ways to identify cool books that will sell.

And so they're looking for self-published titles that have buzz, and certainly Shy Girl had buzz.

And the author, Mia Ballard, she was editing the book for its release in the US.

It's already been released by the publisher in the UK, and it's supposed to be in the US this spring.

But as it was being released to reviewers, people were publishing on Goodreads and YouTube saying, you know,