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The law is really irrelevant, aside from acquiring strength through numbers. All your "rights" depend on the self restraint of those with the ability to violate them, regardless what the contract says. The philosophizing is a nice way to spend the day at the pub, but from every angle, in this universe might still makes right.

As far as cell phones are concerned, the artists are only hurting themselves, but their contract might also demand it. Personally, I think they should be allowed, at least to film something interesting that might pop up somewhere offstage. Besides, if we can't have our phones, we'll find another way. Big Brother, Little Brother, everybody is watching. Nobody gets the advantage. That's how to protect your rights

It is very obvious when someone is using the phone to take pictures/video.

Only if they're concerned about framing. If you're using a phone to spy, you don't have to be obvious about it at all. For example, just get a cellphone that is large enough that it protrudes from a shirt pocket. Start recording, slip it into the pocket with the camera protruding and facing forward, then walk around.

Of course, if someone really wants to record without being noticed there are other options which are much less obvious than Google Glass (old design or new). And cheaper. For example: http://www.brickhousesecurity...., or http://www.brickhousesecurity.....

It is very obvious when someone is using the phone to take pictures/video.

Only if they're concerned about framing. If you're using a phone to spy, you don't have to be obvious about it at all. For example, just get a cellphone that is large enough that it protrudes from a shirt pocket. Start recording, slip it into the pocket with the camera protruding and facing forward, then walk around.

Of course, if someone really wants to record without being noticed there are other options which are much less obvious than Google Glass (old design or new). And cheaper. For example: http://www.brickhousesecurity...., or http://www.brickhousesecurity.....

Really? Why do you think that everybody wearing google glass is spying on you?
Why is it immoral are wrong for me to wear Glass if I am not recording you?
Guess what.... there is nothing wrong. You are just afraid that someone might be spying on you but frankly there are a ton of really hidden cameras that cost a fraction of Glass and record at the same resolution.
http://www.brickhousesecurity....
You don't see the two things as being remotely comparable but you want to ban something that might be abused...
And frankly the abuse would be less harmful on average and less common than TOR or Bittorrent.

" if I constantly followed you around with a videocamera that would be harassment."
Yes but if you are walking down the street with one it is not.
You and everyone else are all bent out of shape not because people with Google Glass are recording you.
You are all upset because they MIGHT be recording...
Frankly people unless you are making a fool out of yourself in public your probably just not that interesting.
But here you go http://www.brickhousesecurity....
Live in terror and hide. Lots of hidden cameras that cost a fraction of the cost of Google glass!
Your doomed everyone is spying on you because you are so interesting!
This all hype driven garbage.

It doesn't have a little red light, but it has the light in front of the wearer's eye. If the screen is on, they could be recording you. They also have to stare directly at you to record, and they'd be using voice commands and tapping at the side of their head. It seems like a pretty shitty device for surreptitious recording - you can already fit a camera in almost anything.

http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/product/covert+wireless+headset+camera.do

How about a hearty go fuck yourself in private.

The hardware can actually be quite cheap, the connection service plans cost more than most cell-phone data plans, and I'm sure it's a great deal more expensive if you need it to operate outside of cell tower coverage areas.

Also, the GPS tracker would have to chirp to send out your data. It would probably be of VHF since that's unregulated (148 - 152 MHz is a good one) so all you'd have to do is check for broadcasts of that frequency. GPS refreshes at 1Hz, so that's probably what they would chirp at unless they're using burst downloads.

FYI, the range on GPS / VHF transmissions in urban environmentsis very short. It gets unreliable after a few hundred meters and it completely thwarted by brick.

Most GPS trackers I have dealt with use SMS or text message sent to a server by signals over regular cellular carriers. They can be programmed to send every minute or ten minutes of longer.

http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/gps-car-tracking-vehicle-logging.html

There are some that send via satellite too. Those are generally reserved for large item tracking (like shipping containers or heavy equipment and can be activated remotely as well as penetrate large walls and buildings. I can't find my reference link to it right now, but the UN has even approved a couple of these for international tracking of UN equipment and shipments.

here is a quick reply from google. Im sure the police/fed models cost 10x as much and have less range :)

http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/gps-car-tracking-vehicle-logging.html

In all but 12 US states it's legal to tape your own conversations without the other person's consent or knowledge. I don't believe there are any laws about taking pictures in public in America, except for "Private Places" like locker rooms etc (see here).
So in summary, it would seem to be legal in most parts of America to record his day like he says.

Several years ago, there was a company called "Wherify" that made a GPS enabled wrist-watch device for this purpose. You could put it on your kid, and it it locked on with a key so it couldn't be removed (it also had a cut-resistant band to help thwart would be kidnappers). You could see your childs location from any web-browser. You could set way-points in so that if you're kid was supposed to be home at 3pm afterschool, and they didn't show up, you would be notified by email. It also had a "panic" feature on it that would allow the child to activate if something bad did happen, that would cause the GPS coordinates to be sent to a dispatcher and you for immediate action. It was water proof etc. Sounds exactly like what you're looking for. Here is a link to it, but I don't know if their sold anymore... http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/wf200.html

Believe me, no parent who has ever had their child abducted, raped and murdered has ever thought their problem was statistically insignificant. When you are a parent, your don't care about statistics, because you don't play the numbers with your children. I want to know the answer to this mans question as well. And if there is a product that fits the criteria, I will be buying one, for the same reason I own guns. Even there the odds of me using one for self defense are statistic insignificant, the odds of me ever wishing I had had one to use are exactly 0. That is certainty with paying for. These are the only products I know of... I don't know how good any of them are... http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/realtime-gpstrackingsystem.html

While a cell-phone solution might work for a teen, I don't think that's going to get held on to by a kindergarten aged kid.

There are a number of wristwatch solutions out there. One that I saw (but couldn't locate quickly) made it so that you could not remove the watch w/o the right pin - the idea being that if the child was kidnapped you would not want the watch removed easily.

Here is one solution that I found: lok8u.com

Ah, here is another, which requires a remote device to unlock the wristwatch: www.brickhousesecurity.com/wf200.html

I am not sure whether tracking your child is a good idea or not.
I don't tell other people how to raise their children.

If you wish to buy a tracker in a phone, here is some information.
Good Housekeeping expressed opinions
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/product-testing/reviews-tests/appliances-electronics/kid-cell-phones-0306
loc8u ofers a GPS Watch
http://www.switched.com/2009/01/07/lok8u-launches-gps-child-locator-watch-at-ces/
Wherify has one
http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/wherify-wherifone-cell-phone-with-gps-locator-lets-you-gps-track-your-kids/
AT&T has one
http://www.gpsbusinessnews.com/AT-T-launches-child-locator-service_a1470.html
Here is a discussion of short and long range child locators
http://www.gpsfortoday.com/child-locators/
Amber Alert has one
http://www.gpschildtracker.net/child-gps-devices-systems-tracking-phone-chip-child-location

However, if you don't want to use a phone
and build more of it yourself,
here are some websites that may be useful:
http://www.tradekey.com/selloffer_view/id/2924121.htm
http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/gps-tracking-server.html
http://forums.coolest-gadgets.com/showthread.php?t=4079
http://www.ecplaza.net/search/0s1nf20sell/gps_tracker_%20gps_tracking_gps.html
http://5thirtyone.com/archives/876/comment-page-1

Looks like it could fit in something smallish.

http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/theft-recovery-asset-tracker.html

The TomTom or Garmin unit sitting on your dash is passive, but there is this technology which is probably similar to what TFA is about.

Good thing I still have my pen camera!

I'm afraid they're already compliant with this new law

If current military used, field deplyable compact IR cameras+displays are ~7,000USD I don't think the ease of using a green phosphor screen is a consideration.

I'm having a hard time understanding how green intensities are the easiest to detect, but hues the hardest. Perhaps you understand the eye better than I do. If so, please explain.

And not that is the end of the discussion, but:
"A Night Vision Phosphor Screen is purposefully colored green because the human eye can differentiate more shades of green than other phosphor colors."
http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/about-night-vision-ir-cameras.html

A PS/2 hardware keylogger only needs to be placed at the end of the device. You needn't even touch the keyboard to install it, let alone unscrew anything.

P.S. Oh.. and don't feel safe just because you may use a USB keyboard. That's covered too.

-Grym

I'm not sure how you construed my post as a half memory because I didn't say anything that cameras are always legal so long as a notice is posted but I appreciate the clarification for others who may view. I wasn't considering private areas such as bathrooms. My statement was that in the US, if an employer utilizes a CCTV system in the workplace, they must post notices and inform the employees.

I found that NLRB case here. Look at the AnheuserBusch case.

After a little more research, I discover this and this. Not the definitive sources on the matter but an interesting read. Going back to my previous post to the author, consult your union if you're allowed one.