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Google Releases Glass Kernel Source Code
hypnosec writes "Google has released the kernel source code of Google Glass publicly just a couple of days after the wearable gadget was rooted by Jay Freeman. Releasing the source code, Google has noted that the location is just temporary and it would be moving to a permanent location soon saying: 'This is unlikely to be the permanent home for the kernel source, it should be pushed into git next to all other android kernel source releases relatively soon.'"
This isn't even only limited to YOU, personally, but everyone around you. Google Glasses will see everything you do and they will run facial recognition on EVERYBODY AROUND YOU. Not only will YOU lose privacy but EVERYONE ELSE TOO.
There is no expectation of privacy in public spaces and private locations are free to ban video and photography just like they've always been, if they don't want it. I don't see what the big deal is.
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As I live in a country where corruption is rampant and where police officials openly ask for bribes and misbehave with people, I can't wait for thousands of people to be wearing these babies all the time.
It's about time we started watching our government publicly. This will revolutionize things, make no mistake.
Not so. You're more likely to notice someone holding out a smartphone taking pictures and stuff, where as with glass it was discovered there's code and an apk with facial control features such as winking to take a picture etc. Since someone could much more easily just turn their head and wink to snap a picture vs holding a phone out.. Pretty sure you could do so much more covertly with glass than any phone (restrooms, up skirt, etc)
There is where I live. The fact that you do not know what the big deal is, is the big deal.
Remember how they got to Big Brother? Not by going to war. They got there because people were not interested in their privacy.
Or to quote from yet somewhere else: "So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause."
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Your GoPro will record your surrounding, and you have the right to do that. Google Glass will go a bit further and augment your view with information about anything and anyone around you. How about labels with all faces you look at, reading "John; Age 34, last visited website milf.com", "Mindy; Age 17, just had breast cancer"..
I do not need that kind of information, and I object to living in a society where others would see labels on me and my family with 'mined' information.
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In what way is Google Glass significantly more threatening with regards to privacy than the situation of ubiquitous camera embedded in cell phones situation that we already have today, where probably 7 out of every 10 people you see are carrying something they could use to take pictures or video at any time anyways?
Secondly, actively *highly* secret recording devices, like spy cameras and the like, which can be embedded in glasses or other very inconspicuous places, far less noticeable than Glass, have been available for quite some time. In what way does Google Glass pose a greater threat to privacy than devices like these? Why is there not a similar interest in banning such devices, which anyone is perfectly permitted to buy?
I'm not saying that critics who are concerned about privacy are wrong because of the above points, but I'm personally very interested in how critics of Glass would address those issues
Thanks in advance.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
"In what way does Google Glass pose a greater threat to privacy than devices like these?"
Ubiquity, penetration, and connectivity.
Really? The surveillance cameras in the UK beg to differ. Obviously there has to be a balance between freedom and privacy, we're just going to figure it out as we go, as we always have.
Wow, how to tell when people are ignorant:
They get all their ideas about government from novels.
Or from high-quality Hollywood entertainment.
Various Greek states had democracy that wasn't forced on them (unlike, say, Germany), and wasn't in the imagination of the maker of popular kids movies. Why don't you look at how they lost it, and what problems they had? You'll end up much wiser.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
With smartphones it is usually clear when someone is recording someone else because of the physical location of the camera. It is not common or socially acceptable to record a person that you are interacting with. And glass has the potential to be recording all the time while it is very inconvenient to walk around recording everything with your cellphone.
A person who wears a spycam all the time and is found out will generally be shunned. Google glass has the appearance of legitimacy.
Video cameras by the government or private companies are governed by some set of regulations that mean they can't just post something you said to facebook or youtube.
The end result of Google glass is that now you have a situation where, so long as you are interacting with a person wearing Google glass, you may be being recorded. This will end up being very tiresome as people have to "watch what they say" all the time. The change is not a qualitative change: whenever people interact with others, in private or public, what they say or do may become known in another context. It is a quantitative change: now there is only one context: your boss can hear the dirty joke you tell at a party. Your friends and coworkers can hear the awkward one liner you use on a girl at a bar. Every political statement you make must be vetted for "racism", "sexism", "homophobia" and "anti-semitism", or you will be thrown out of university.
Btw I'm not saying they should be banned, I'm just explaining why I think Google glass does raise novel concerns about privacy.
I find it strange that there wasn't a huge outcry when Microsoft release the Kinect, a device that always has a camera on inside your house. Personally, I trust Microsoft a lot less than I trust Google.
You don't see the difference between a stationary recording device that people choose to place in their own homes versus a mobile device others wear that can record you anywhere without your consent?
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