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YouTube Removes Video of Reactions To Being Videoed
theodp writes "To follow-up on an earlier Slashdot post, GeekWire reports that YouTube has removed Surveillance Camera Man's latest video of people's sometimes-violent reactions to being videoed, citing its policy of prohibiting content designed to harass, threaten or bully ("This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube's policy prohibiting content designed to harass, bully or threaten"). In a neat coincidence, the YouTube ban comes just after similar complaints were lodged against Google Glass. 'Some people also seem to feel threatened by Google Glass,' Philip De Cortes wrote in Google Glass Will Fail. 'They wonder if they're being recorded, and they feel like the tool could be used against them in some way.'"
people bitch about Google Glass. Yet people don't whine about dash cams or cameras in cell phones?
A fundamental difference is that the CCTV is over there while google glass and surveillance man are right in your face.
The person buying Google Glass isn't being videoed, so he doesn't have an incentive to not have it
When the person being videoed becomes hostile, punches you in the face, and breaks your new google glasses, you may rethink purchasing another pair. I suspect that calling in an assault to the police would get you laughed at and told not to be an asshole next time.