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The Creepy Side of Google Glasses
Noreena Hertz outlines her concerns about Google Glass (she calls them “Glasses” but the actual name assigned by Google is “Glass”) in theWall Street Journal. Have any disinfonauts tried them yet? Thoughts?
…My concern, having tried on a pair of Google Glasses myself, and also seen Google’s own early marketing efforts, is that they’ll be more often “deployed” in a far less altruistic and far more intrusive way.
We’re already living in a world in which we’ve all got cameras to the ready via the smartphones in our pockets, so to a considerable extent we can already easily transform ourselves into paparazzi, as well as easily be paparazzi’s prey. But when I wore them I was taken aback at just how covert they allowed photography and filming to be.
All you have to do is whisper–“record” or “take a photo” or even just wink, and the moment, conversation, or exchange is captured with the subject of your filming left completely unaware, their consent never given.
No wonder hospitals, casinos and strip clubs have become bedfellows united in their declarations to ban them. Google even barred the glasses from its own shareholder meeting in June…
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2013/10/the-creepy-side-of-google-glasses/
