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Why you’ll want everyone you know to wear Google Glass

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Re: Why you’ll want everyone you know to wear Google Glass

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I don't want to be recorded. At All!! No video, no audio, no photographs. NOTHING!! Take your Glass somewhere else. I am off-limits.

What makes you think you have a right to tell someone else what they can record in a public place? You cannot have an expectation of privacy in public.

Re: Why you’ll want everyone you know to wear Google Glass

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post #9

I don't want to be recorded. At All!! No video, no audio, no photographs. NOTHING!! Take your Glass somewhere else. I am off-limits.

I also don't want to be recorded by convenience store or shopping mall cctv, or by repo man ANPR, or by red light / speeding cameras.

We've lost that argument though.

What I would like to see, is for there to be appropriate responsibility assumed by the people taking advantage of the privilege of recording everything. I eagerly await the first few court cases where someone drunkenly records and uploads to youtube something that they _really_ shouldn't have, and a judge and jury decides it's entirely appropriate to hold Glass-wearers to account for what they choose to record and publish.

Re: Why you’ll want everyone you know to wear Google Glass

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post #9

I don't want to be recorded. At All!! No video, no audio, no photographs. NOTHING!! Take your Glass somewhere else. I am off-limits.

What makes you think you have a right to tell someone else what they can record in a public place? You cannot have an expectation of privacy in public.

(This is the beginning of a much longer comment I wrote in another thread a few days back - see the full version here if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6043640 )

"You have no expectation of privacy when in public."

I'm seeing this objection a lot lately, and perhaps I'm showing my age here, but I've certainly got an "expectation of being largely individually anonymous when in public". While there's nothing to stop people looking for me and possibly finding me in public - I _don't_ expect people(/corporations/tlagencies) to be recording everybody in public spaces and archiving them permanently in ways that allow all archived recordings of me to eventually be crossreferenced and de-anonymised.

Re: Why you’ll want everyone you know to wear Google Glass

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post #23
post #9

I don't want to be recorded. At All!! No video, no audio, no photographs. NOTHING!! Take your Glass somewhere else. I am off-limits.

Fucking Yeti! I know you are out there. I'll find you.

And, of course: http://xkcd.com/1235/

Re: Why you’ll want everyone you know to wear Google Glass

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This debate about knowing when Glass is recording puzzles me a bit. We have an established way to indicate that a device is recording across both camcorders and webcams on laptops - a small light indicating when the camera is on. On most camcorders it's a small red light. On Macs it's green. Glass has an indicator towards the back that is poorly visible. Just move it to the front and maybe make it a little brighter.…

http://www.geekwire.com/2012/seattles-creepy-cameraman-pushe...

Re: Why you’ll want everyone you know to wear Google Glass

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This debate about knowing when Glass is recording puzzles me a bit. We have an established way to indicate that a device is recording across both camcorders and webcams on laptops - a small light indicating when the camera is on. On most camcorders it's a small red light. On Macs it's green. Glass has an indicator towards the back that is poorly visible. Just move it to the front and maybe make it a little brighter.…

Personally, I no longer trust these established indicators. I now feel justified in assuming that backdoors are built into most systems and that Glass could be recording at any time, without my approval and without any indication.

Re: Why you’ll want everyone you know to wear Google Glass

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This debate about knowing when Glass is recording puzzles me a bit. We have an established way to indicate that a device is recording across both camcorders and webcams on laptops - a small light indicating when the camera is on. On most camcorders it's a small red light. On Macs it's green. Glass has an indicator towards the back that is poorly visible. Just move it to the front and maybe make it a little brighter.…

Are you serious or cracking a joke? I honestly can't tell. Because it seemed like you were slowly describing how to turn the supposedly cool and hip google glass into the borg headset:

http://www.startrek.com/legacy_media/images/200509/ds9-401-l...

I don't think I could pull this look quite as well as Patrick Stewart :)

Re: Why you’ll want everyone you know to wear Google Glass

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post #9

I don't want to be recorded. At All!! No video, no audio, no photographs. NOTHING!! Take your Glass somewhere else. I am off-limits.

same here! i want nothing to do with the world of pointless media sharing or other people's perception that recording everything is worthwhile.

if i could legally destroy every glass rig that was anywhere near me, i would be a happy person indeed. the unfortunate situation that now arises is a surveillance arms race, wherein it is illegal (in most countries) to undertake destructive or jamming actions against surveillance technology, be it radio or cellular frequency EM waves, a horde of idiots with cameras or the intelligence services that record all internet traffic, including this post. i would rather not participate, but the concept of passive/massive resistance simply will not work against such technology.

i don't want to develop my own countersurveillance to keep the glassholes at bay. however, i and people who care about privacy are left with few options. i would love to see some legit countermeasures for glass.

Re: Why you’ll want everyone you know to wear Google Glass

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post #16

>>Google should ... rather develop it as a novel device for directed, private communication. Private in what way? Private between us and Google? Private between us and Google and the NSA? This blog post ignores the reality before our very eyes, something we don't need Google Glass for. It is merely another data acquisition tool for Google and any usefulness beyond that is incidental.

There are many Googlers here, you know :) You either talk about G positively or not at all. The glass is the most Orwellian thing I've ever heard of. The only thing that could beat it would be direct brain interfaces, capable of stealing thoughts.

it is amusing that you mentioned this because google's business strategy is to steadily erode the privacy of all human beings and monetize it at each step. they can try to dance around this all day with marketing and it doesn't matter.

it's only a matter of time before the glass hardware has an attachment that reads your mind so you exert even less effort than currently, e.g. blinking. google will then take that data and sell it to marketers, the USG, and whoever else they can, so everyone knows what you're going to think before you think it. google predictive thinking... so sad.

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