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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.
No one likes glassholes, FBI or AMC. And to top it, this glasshole goes to watch 'Jack Ryan, Shadow Recruit'!
May be its punishment for choosing to watch that picture.
Tat Tvam Asi
Uh huh...this IS the USA we're talking about here, where politicians trot out bibles and getting a BJ was nearly cause for impeachment.
Sure its a nice thought but as long as organized religion has control of so much of the country? NOT gonna happen. THIS is the real threat folks, just look at how long Hoover was able to keep an iron grip on the country with his "file cabinet". You really only need to keep files on a couple of thousand people to pretty much control the country, dirty laundry on politicians in some key posts along with certain business leaders and you have the country by the short hairs.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
You are lamenting a disparity between local law enforcement and the FBI, and apparently equating movie piracy (which can cost the film industry millions of dollars in lost revenue, and potentially millions in lost tax revenues on the lost movie revenues) and a home burglary which can cost an insurance company several thousand dollars in covered losses...
Yeah, it does say a lot about our priorities.
Ken