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At Google Conference, Cameras Even in the Bathroom
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#12We should never have had any expectation of privacy in public places. I think what scares most people is that they're going to end up on the internet for some reason. Perhaps this shows how self-obsessed we are: to think that anyone is going to care about us walking down the street minding our own business. Maybe it's the uncertainty that makes people uneasy. I can walk down the street recording everyone with my smar…
Until you do something in a moment of distraction or half-thought that would strike a lot of people as humiliating or ridiculous in some way. Like the kid who smiled so big in his school picture, now the butt of countless internet jokes and his picture is everywhere. Nobody wants to be made fun of that way.
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#13>There they were, a handful of people wearing Google Glass, now standing next to me at their own urinals, peering their head from side to side, blinking or winking, as they relieved themselves.
I wasn't there so I have to take his word for it, but... I really doubt that. Blinking, of course. People blink. But why, I cannot fathom, would everyone at a urinal be peering side to side and taking pictures of other people using the restroom? No one does that with the camera they carry with them everywhere. Why would Glass change that? What would it be about Glass that would suddenly make everyone want to take pictures of other men in the restroom?
Was this story just made up to be hyperbolic? I seriously can't figure out why Glass would cause such a huge cultural shift that would make people start photographing each other in the bathroom not only acceptable but common.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, if someone winked at my exposed genitals while I was in the bathroom, they would get a fist to the face whether they were wearing Glass or not. The rules of society have not become extinct just because someone is wearing a head-mounted camera.
The rules of the society I live in certainly don't include sudden violence at anyone who's checking out my junk. I might be upset or angry, and I'd probably let them know it, but I'm not getting into a bathroom brawl over it.
It doesn't take a genius to see how cameras in a bathroom could be abused. I wouldn't expect every person who potentially faces Internet-scale humiliation that might come from the prospect of their private parts ending up on someone's FB page to simply shrug it off.
I'm counting the days till some Glass-wearing hipster gets his head shoved in a toilet for crap like this. When it happens, I expect THAT will be filmed as well.
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#15Then I met the man who excitedly told me about his power to snap pictures with his eyelid. He explained that he uses the wink-to-take-a-picture feature so much that a few days ago he was not wearing his Google Glass and was confused when he blinked his eye and nothing happened. His mind had played a trick on him, he said.
Well this itself isn't new, since I often reach to adjust my glasses even when I'm not wearing them.
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#16I assume people think this is a problem because they are afraid someone will film them "down there". But you have to actually look down there to do that with Glass, and last I checked that was already frowned upon, and it's something people know they shouldn't do. So why would Glass make this situation much worse?
Yes, if someone winked at my exposed genitals while I was in the bathroom, they would get a fist to the face whether they were wearing Glass or not. The rules of society have not become extinct just because someone is wearing a head-mounted camera.
given the nature of your response, I am going to make the wild assumption that if your Rules of Society were enforced you'd have had your ass kicked by a lot of women.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The rules of the society I live in certainly don't include sudden violence at anyone who's checking out my junk. I might be upset or angry, and I'd probably let them know it, but I'm not getting into a bathroom brawl over it.
It doesn't take a genius to see how cameras in a bathroom could be abused. I wouldn't expect every person who potentially faces Internet-scale humiliation that might come from the prospect of their private parts ending up on someone's FB page to simply shrug it off. I'm counting the days till some Glass-wearing hipster gets his head shoved in a toilet for crap like this. When it happens, I expect THAT will be filmed…
I agree with you on this point: there will be misunderstandings, and there will be violence. Almost certainly someone is going to end up in an emergency room, where a doctor will be picking bits of Google Glass out of their head with tweezers.
I was just pointing out that this is not a good thing, and freehunter should not be proudly exclaiming how he's going to punch someone in the face.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, if someone winked at my exposed genitals while I was in the bathroom, they would get a fist to the face whether they were wearing Glass or not. The rules of society have not become extinct just because someone is wearing a head-mounted camera.
The rules of the society I live in certainly don't include sudden violence at anyone who's checking out my junk. I might be upset or angry, and I'd probably let them know it, but I'm not getting into a bathroom brawl over it.
Really? If someone was indiscreetly peering over your shoulder to check out your package, you would let them know that it made you upset? Excuse me good sir, I do believe you are offending me?
Where I come from, that's more than an indiscretion. We're not talking about a locker room.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, if someone winked at my exposed genitals while I was in the bathroom, they would get a fist to the face whether they were wearing Glass or not. The rules of society have not become extinct just because someone is wearing a head-mounted camera.
given the nature of your response, I am going to make the wild assumption that if your Rules of Society were enforced you'd have had your ass kicked by a lot of women.
I don't make a habit of going into women's restrooms and staring at their nudity while they relieve themselves. I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
The rules of the society I live in certainly don't include sudden violence at anyone who's checking out my junk. I might be upset or angry, and I'd probably let them know it, but I'm not getting into a bathroom brawl over it.
It doesn't take a genius to see how cameras in a bathroom could be abused. I wouldn't expect every person who potentially faces Internet-scale humiliation that might come from the prospect of their private parts ending up on someone's FB page to simply shrug it off. I'm counting the days till some Glass-wearing hipster gets his head shoved in a toilet for crap like this. When it happens, I expect THAT will be filmed…
Man, wait till the teenagers start getting class. Sexts are already so common, this is going to be a huge problem.