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No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service — and No Google Glass, Either
Seattle diners who want to take their food-tweeting pictures with Google glass were already facing a preemptively hostile environment; now (in a different restaurant), a diner's been asked to remove his Google Glass headset, or leave. He chose to leave. Maybe Faraday cages and anti-surveillance features will become the norm at the restaurants where things like Glass are most likely to appear.
The owner is a fool if he thinks he can ban cameras, or that people are "in private" when they are out eating in a restaurant. Google glass is at least visible, many people in the future will simply put the camera in a piece of jewelry or a pen just because it looks less geeky.
Just leave and give the place a bad review.
From his twitter: "I'm gay, into technology & have an amazing partner"
Wow! What a fag.
Because a Glasshole would never tell his Surveil-o-matic to activate; they wear them entirely for the pleasure of inactive dead weight.
Because Google would never push products on the public with a gradual scope in invasive creep to record more and more of the time.
Because normalizing the ubiquitous presence of advertiser-surveillance-ready gear will never lead to growing levels of misuse and abuse (i.e. turning them on outside your own home).
In past posts, I've said I'm proud to be a Luddite --- to critically evaluate the impacts of technology in society, rather than blindly accepting what helps the ultra-rich to control the populate. Yes, I'm still a Luddite --- as should be ever technologically-minded person with forethought and a conscience.