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Google Tries To Defuse Glass "Myths"
As reported by Beta News, Google has tried to answer some of the criticism that its Glass head-mounted system has inspired with a blog post outlining and explaining what it calls 10 "myths" about the system. Google's explanation probably won't change many minds, but in just a few years the need to defend head-worn input/output devices might seem quaint and backwards.
Just throw a basketball at their face. We already know they can't catch.
I expect that getting beaten up, arrested and the like will make even the worst glasshole realize that what they are doing is completely unacceptable.
Can you elaborate on what you think, exactly, Glass users are doing other than carrying a device on their face? What do you think a Glass user can do that a phone user can't?
Really - the camera on Glass is not useful at all to record or photograph someone without them knowing. If I take a picture of you at 10 meters the picture is useless. There's no zoom, no flash... however if I take a $99 camera with a 8x optical focus I can easily take the picture from a distance and no one is going to look at me funny because I'm taking pictures on the street.
So to sum it up: Get a life. If you see me with Glass just ignore me. I'm not taking pictures of you (or anyone else). I just like the convenience of not taking the phone out of my pocket.
On a side note, who the hell invented those stupid draw a pattern to unlock? It might just be me, but the sudden movement of someone pulling out a phone always catches my eye and I see the pattern EVERY single time.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
There is no expectation of privacy in public.
Really, so it would be okay to randomly search someone's person? It would be okay to take pictures of women's panties by pointing a phone under their skirts?
There should be privacy, even in public places. Expectations are irrelevant. The person who used "expectation of privacy" was a shortsighted idiot, because it means that the government need only start violating people's privacy routinely and any expectations to have privacy would vanish.
And you are likely already recorded 30 times a day by various cameras, license plate readers, and all sorts of other stuff (depending on where you live).
That doesn't make it right. We need to distinguish between "Someone might see me." and "I'm being recorded everywhere I go." There is a difference, and a big one. License plate readers and such are especially morally repugnant, and the government shouldn't be allowed to have them.
Why is it that makes people think Glass is nothing but a surveillance device SPECIFICALLY conceived to record them and absolutely nothing else?
You are a first class idiot for thinking that this is the problem. The problem is that while surveillance devices exist, that is all they are. This Glass shit isnt just a surveillance device.. its a surveillance devices selling itself as "more than a surveillance device."
If you have a device that is only used for surveillance on you, then you have no excuses when you get your teeth kicked out of your mouth for using it. But now with Glass you can do the same shit but you have the perfect excuse, "I wasnt recording you, I was just looking up dolphins." -- now that step of being an intentionally creepy stalker fuck will only have consequences so long as we beat the fuck out of every single Glasshole, regardless of their intent. The beatings will continue until you admit the real problem, and that problem is that now you think you have an excuse for being a creepy fuck. You don't.
"His name was James Damore."