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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.
While the cellphone and Glass are not the same tech, they do seem to share similar bad habits (ie making you tune out the world around you, especially when crossing a street) in how people may ultimately use. So, maybe a similar list should be made to address the do's and dont's of cellphones, maybe in app form
I expect that this initiative will be 136.24% more efficient than the already foolproof 'don't be evil' mandate that Google follows...
It will be used to make porn. It will be used to game casinos. It will be used to record cops. Someone will use it to case a place for a robbery. It will be used in divorces. It will be used to document various offences as decreed by Jezebel. It will be used by police to enable face recognition of people like they do licence plates.
What the fuck do they think will happen?
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
It's very smart of Google to recognize that "Glasshole" is an inevitable slang term to be applied to some (most?) Glass users. They're trying to get ahead of the term and define it to apply to only the worst kinds of users.
Still, they face an uphill battle if they hope to create a positive public image for Glass. If only 1 in 10,000 Glass users behaves in a socially unacceptable way, that one person will be the focus of endless sensationalist news coverage.
Humorous that Google is having to tell people to not be creepy or rude. They've finally woken up to the fact that Glass is inherently antisocial, just like all those people who hover over their phones in public as they do constant texting/facebook updates/emails. If someone's gonna do that at a dinner out then they might as well have stayed at home on the bed eating dorito's and watching some mindless flick on tv.
Commonsense bottom line: If you're wearing Glass when you're supposed to be doing something social, then it should be taken off. Everyone should understand in their guts what a social gaffe it is to wear a rig that could be constantly recording while doing something in a supposedly-relaxing social situation - like a party. If they don't then they come out on the lower end of the bell-curve for empathy and on the higher end of the bell-curve for the massively socially inept.
Don't tell me what to do, Google!
because the people who made it didn't want it. That's why.
That should tell you a lot about the mentality of the people who created it.
Google with their insistence on a camera-based social-media augmented-reality creepy-invasive experience is going to set back the cause of direct human-computer interaction by years.
Honestly I don't want a camera in my "glass". I want a link to something like my desktop computing resources. It's an intimate experience between me and the computer, not between my computer and the environment around me. Sure there are some cute apps you can do with the camera, but the creepy factor is going to make people as self-conscious and obvious as a Segway rider (and we know how that turned out).
When I can PAY for a device that has MY interests at heart rather than the latest data power grab by Google then I'll be interested.
Connect me with the Internet then get the fuck out of the way. I don't need you to mediate every interaction I have, not only with information from the net but with the real world around me.
G.
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?
A lot of those points could be made about the iPod. Can you imagine yourself listening to one at the dinner table? At dinner with a date at a restaurant?
There's nothing stopping people from taking off their Glass when it is socially inappropriate to wear it.
I went and registered with the site. It's horrible. You need to replicate Slashdot functionality if you want to take the users away. The way it is now, there isn't really much of a feed and the site is like going to the Help Forum of a cheap ass tech website. I want the front page scrollable. I don't want stories boxed up into different forums. I thought slashcode was open source. Just get the code and reskin it so once Beta goes live we can just slide right over and not have to retrain anything. We are complaining because Beta is going to throw away what we already have. If you want readers, make the new site look like what we already have! I do wish you luck and I'm ready to jump ship when you've cleaned it up.
Also are you claiming that Dice is deleting your posts?
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
Be rude. Because this idea is stupid.
You think in 15 years everyone won't be recording all the time? They will be.
Whether it is Google Contact Lense, Apple Retina Display Phone or Acme Eyeballs --- there are going to be cameras everywhere.
So let us adjust.
Priest: "Universe from nothing, no laws of physics, sped up time"+ huge discrepancies. Creationism? No. Big Bang Theory
"Friends don't really give a shit about each other," says the Google Glasses owner.
It's intended to degauss the glasshole, not the glass. ;)
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.
Sure. But video from those CCTV cameras don't readily get uploaded to youtube.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Sounds like you graduated from the Sean Penn school of social interaction.
Google needs to put in a hard-wired LED that's on when recording. Yes, you'll look like a Borg when you're recording, but that's a small price to pay for others' comfort.
Can people still obscure it? Yes... but if I see someone walking around with a Google Glass *and* a bit of black electrical tape over the front, I know I'm dealing with a complete d-bag and can treat them accordingly.
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
1. don't buy it
2. get a life outside of social networks and the internet
Of course, I'm talking about spray paint.
There is a great fun 1-hour TV show called Black Mirror - The Entire History of You which deals with what it would be like to be able to record every minute of your private life and review it at any stage. Didn't have entirely positive things to say. Worth a watch one evening - might temper your view?
The camera exists on the device. You should assume that people will have rooted it so that any notificiation of recording will be disabled while still allowing recording.
There is a difference between "no reasonable expectation of privacy" and "reasonable expectation to be monitored every single moment of your life".
People and quantum particles have one thing in common: They behave differently if observed. Want proof? Take the average car driver and watch his reaction to a police car starting to drive behind him. They don't want anything from him, he has done nothing wrong, still he starts to feel uneasy. Nothing really changed, it's just that he feels now that he's being monitored. Whether he is being followed by them (actually, with them being so obvious about it, quite unlikely) is irrelevant.
Being observed puts people in a stress position. Take your average test at school and you know what I mean. You know the answer, you knew it 5 minutes ago, but now, in front of everyone and under "observation" from your teacher, suddenly you draw a blank.
CCTVs are already troubling, but at least they're far away and they are not so obvious. Glass would be much more obvious, since it's literally in your face. Try picturing walking across town and getting the feeling that everyone you meet is watching and recording you.
If you ain't paranoid yet, you sure will be.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
While I can understand that people have a problem with being recorded everywhere and by everyone, why has this never been a problem with those camera sunglasses you can get in your "toys for spies and other grown up kids" shop for years now?
These are actually designed to a) record more than a few moments of video and b) to do that hiden without arousing any suspiscion. And c) they are available for everyone for $30
And all of a sudden everyone is up in arms that people could buy a $1500 device that can't record longer than a few minutes and is highly visible to make SECRET (or at least unnoticed) video recordings? Come on guys...
The usual argument is the one about the slippery slope that the introduction of wearable video cameras will lead to ubiquitous video surveillance, but I can't see how that could lead there when wearable, hidden cameras is actually where we're comming from! Wearble cameras getting are getting bigger, more noticeable and less recording capacity and suddenly everyone is WORRIED?!?
bickerdyke
Don't be creepy says the creepiest company on the web, spying on people worldwide to a degree that I'm sure the NSA envies.
Google analytics > Google glass, pot kettle black.
Waterfox - a Firefox fork with legacy extension support, security updates and better privacy by default.
Thank goodness there is absolutely no way known to science or man of disabling a small LED.
They already side load. They've (as in users/devs/hackers) have already figured out a way to record without any indication and even made an app to snap pictures with a simple wink (I believe Google may have introduced the ability to do that also now, but the users introduced it long ago when Google said it wasn't possible)
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 :-(
Obviously. How much battery life or storage space do you think would need to fit in this device to be permanently recording? Permanent recording, or even frequent recording by user choice, is not practical in a device this size with current technology.
You don't need to be a rocket engineer to connect it to a larger battery in your pocket. If people want it, someone will make it.
This is what, your third threat of violence towards those who don't like glass in this thread?
Such an internet tough guy.
Yep, because threatening to spraypaint and/or lase someone in the face because they wear Glass isn't violent or out of proportion at all?
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...