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The release of Google Glass will mean the end of privacy forever
Diaz
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9939933/Google-Glass-Orwellian-surveillance-with-fluffier-branding.html
http://www.edrants.com/thirty-five-arguments-against-google-glass/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass
From telegraph.co.uk:
" Imagine if Google or Facebook decided to install their own CCTV cameras everywhere, gathering data about our movements, recording our lives and joining up every camera in the land in one giant control room. It’s Orwellian surveillance with fluffier branding. And this isn’t just video surveillance – Glass uses audio recording too. For added impact, if you’re not content with Google analysing the data, the person can share it to social media as they see fit too.
Yet that is the reality of Google Glass. Everything you see, Google sees. You don’t own the data, you don’t control the data and you definitely don’t know what happens to the data. Put another way – what would you say if instead of it being Google Glass, it was Government Glass? A revolutionary way of improving public services, some may say. Call me a cynic, but I don’t think it’d have much success. "
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I understand that there is no expectation of privacy in a public place but this means that private conversations have high potential of being published online.
We are surveyed and monitored enough already this is just more surveillance and this form of surveillance is a lot more intrusive than CCTV.
You will be audio and video recorded EVERYWHERE in public you go, shops, restaurants, pharmacies etc. You will be audio and video recorded on private property as well.
It is frightening that people are willing to give up their privacy to have the latest gadget.
http://www.edrants.com/thirty-five-arguments-against-google-glass/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass
From telegraph.co.uk:
" Imagine if Google or Facebook decided to install their own CCTV cameras everywhere, gathering data about our movements, recording our lives and joining up every camera in the land in one giant control room. It’s Orwellian surveillance with fluffier branding. And this isn’t just video surveillance – Glass uses audio recording too. For added impact, if you’re not content with Google analysing the data, the person can share it to social media as they see fit too.
Yet that is the reality of Google Glass. Everything you see, Google sees. You don’t own the data, you don’t control the data and you definitely don’t know what happens to the data. Put another way – what would you say if instead of it being Google Glass, it was Government Glass? A revolutionary way of improving public services, some may say. Call me a cynic, but I don’t think it’d have much success. "
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I understand that there is no expectation of privacy in a public place but this means that private conversations have high potential of being published online.
We are surveyed and monitored enough already this is just more surveillance and this form of surveillance is a lot more intrusive than CCTV.
You will be audio and video recorded EVERYWHERE in public you go, shops, restaurants, pharmacies etc. You will be audio and video recorded on private property as well.
It is frightening that people are willing to give up their privacy to have the latest gadget.
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The product is a huge affront to civil liberties.
Maybe you should use your Google glasses to cross reference civil liberties against an encyclopaedia.
What happens if they put Google Glasses on Google Nose?
But dumb people will buy into the idea anyway. Just needs a few idiots to start the ball rolling.
I like the line "the person can share it to social media as they see fit too," as if that's not possible already with all the social apps on phones, etc...
You can currently buy cameras hidden in pens from "spy gadget" type shops, so that's not exactly new.
Get some new hobbies, please?
Yes people walking around with these on are going to be pretty unpopular I think.
Initially maybe, but it'll take off.
Maybe, maybe not. Google doesn't have the Midas Touch. They have tried things in the past which just hasn't taken off in the end. There is quite a bit of buzz around the glasses but in the end it will boil down to user experience and user acceptance. I'm not too keen on voice commands myself. I don't proclaim what I'm about to do to the people around me just before I do it.
The key is how well the voice commands work. If they work well, even with odd accents, then I can see people taking too them.
Think of it as a computer/phone? hybrid from your POV with a user interface
These links give a clue to the functionality of it
http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/
http://www.google.com/glass/start/how-it-feels/
Can't see many people wanting to talk to someone that might or might not be recording them and might or might not publish their conversation online.
It's still in the prototype phase so we can speculate but I suspect as with phones it will keep track of your location and past locations and your search records. It'll also integrate with Google+ and Google Drive so will allow automatic syncing of any recorded media with the cloud or social networks, maybe even youtube. What Google does with this cloud data who knows. Probably nothing but it's somebody else holding all the keys to your stuff.
In fairness, that is what I said about Ipods...
I'm guessing you'll be able to turn that stuff off.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/google-shows-off-a-prescription-version-of-google-glasses/