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.

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just leave

[stenvar]

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.

Re:just leave

[femtobyte]

Just wait. Right now, there are battery life and bandwidth limitations to 24/7 surveillance. Also, the device is still in initial publicity stages, thus has to meet PR requirements of not being so grossly creepy that the overwhelming majority of people reject it. But, give Google time to roll this out on mass scale; time for technology to fix the bandwidth and battery issues; and time for the public to adjust to submitting to the next level of all-pervasive corporate control. As for me, I'm going to speak out against intrusive and harmful technologies before they've reached full maturity and unstoppable ubiquity. But you can wait until they come for you, and there's nobody left to speak out...

Re:Just imagine

[Anonymous Coward]

From his twitter: "I'm gay, into technology & have an amazing partner"

Wow! What a fag.

Re:How much of an ass are you?

[stenvar]

He's not banning cameras, he's banning an always-on head mounted camera that you cannot tell when it's recording.

Is he going to ban wrist watches? Pens? Jewelry? Phones? Belt buckles? Tablets? Eyeglasses? Because they all have the same property: they might contain a camera and might be recording.

It's absurd to say you should leave if asked to remove a camera from your head.

It is not absurd to leave if someone asks me to remove random bits of technology from my body because they don't understand the technology.

if I went out to dine with someone

The probability of you and me having dinner is zero, so don't worry about it. And have fun at "The bar run by alcoholics for alcoholics", because that's the motto of that fine establishing. Just your place, I'm sure.

Re: Easy answer

[BronsCon]

Har har har, that was so witty I can't even feel the pain I'm sure it caused deep in my soul. I love you so much, AC; if I didn't, I wouldn't bother feeding you.

Re:Just imagine

[femtobyte]

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.