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Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude'
An anonymous reader writes "One of the biggest worries about the rise of wearable computing is the ease with which random strangers will be able to record your actions without your knowing. Right now, it's pretty easy to tell if somebody's holding up their cellphone to take some video. But when everybody's wearing Google Glass, or something similar, it will become harder to tell. This has led to preemptive bans on Glass in certain places. Now, Google has published a list of Do's and Don'ts to tell Glass users how they should behave politely in public. Do: ask for permission before recording people. Don't: ignore the world around you, expect that people won't notice, or wear it during a cage fight. Most importantly, don't 'be creepy or rude.' Google says, 'Standing alone in the corner of a room staring at people while recording them through Glass is not going to win you any friends.'"
Creepy and rude nerds are their target market. How's that going to work?
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Don't be a glasshole.
I expect that this initiative will be 136.24% more efficient than the already foolproof 'don't be evil' mandate that Google follows...
Working on a ranged degausser for any glass user pointing it in my direction.
Wow. I didn't realize google glass was storing its data on magnetic media. Or do you mean that the eye piece is actually a mini CRT?
you'll be happy to know Google Glass has similar option to turn the red on, activated by a hard punch to the a face of the glasshole
Google Tells Glass Users Not To Be 'Creepy Or Rude' ... and then they reminded users that they'll be watching so they'll know.
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
Sounds like you graduated from the Sean Penn school of social interaction.
Thank goodness there is absolutely no way known to science or man of disabling a small LED.
Google says, 'Standing alone in the corner of a room staring at people while recording them through Glass is not going to win you any friends.'"
Funny, that sounds like me at any social function, and that's without wearing Glass :-(