AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer

An anonymous reader writes "A Google Glass user was interrogated without legal counsel for a couple of hours under suspicion that he may have been recording a film in the AMC movie theater. Although the matter could have been cleared in minutes, federal agents insisted on interrogating the user for hours. So long for our constitutional freedoms." Hours of being detained that could have been avoided if they had just searched his devices (which he repeatedly suggested they do): "Eventually, after a long time somebody came with a laptop and an USB cable at which point he told me it was my last chance to come clean. I repeated for the hundredth time there is nothing to come clean about and this is a big misunderstanding so the FBI guy finally connected my Glass to the computer, downloaded all my personal photos and started going though them one by one (although they are dated and it was obvious there was nothing on my Glass that was from the time period they accused me of recording). Then they went through my phone, and 5 minutes later they concluded I had done nothing wrong." Update: 01/21 21:41 GMT by U L : The Columbus Dispatch confirmed the story with the Department of Homeland Security. The ICE and not the FBI detained the Glass wearer, and there happened to be an MPAA task force at the theater that night, who then escalated the incident.

Comments

Re:Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole!

[Kjella]

Why? Because some overzealous pimple-faced minimum-wage snot might call the fucking FBI over it?

No, keep wearing them. And let the idiots keep involving the fucking FBI every time, until they give up with the bullshit nonsense.

You don't want to get into a pissing match with the FBI about who can harass who more. Nor the cinema, they're a private property and you're in violation of their rules so they're entitled to ban you for life. Possibly even in all cinemas in the same chain, the way airlines ban some passengers from all their flights. Actually, on second thoughts... you first, I'll be right behind you.

Re:Why?

[Dunbal]

Displaying a firearm in public is an established crime. Owning a video camera and bringing it into a theatre is not. NEXT.

Re:Creepy

[martin-boundary]

What rights are you talking about? A movie theatre is on private property, and as such any glasshole has no right to film from the interior without permission. Movie theatres generally make it VERY clear that patrons are not permitted to film on the premises. Ergo, any glasshole who even wears the google glasses is under suspicion, and if he turns it on even for a second in the toilet he can be prosecuted in theory.

So no, glassholes have no legal grounds to stand on when in places like movie theatres, restaurants, shops, etc.