A patron at Molotov’s in San Francisco took this photo of Sarah Slocum wearing Google Glass before she said she was attacked on February 21, 2014. (Sagesse Gwinn Graham / CBS)
Posted on 02/25/2014 8:58:19 AM PST by rawhide
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) – A Bay Area woman said she was attacked for wearing the Google Glass wearable computer at a bar in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury.
Tech writer Sarah Slocum wrote on her Facebook page that she was at Molotov’s on Haight Street Friday night. Slocum said she was showing someone at the bar how the high-tech glasses work, when two women confronted her. Then, a man ripped the Google Glass off of her face.
“OMG so you’ll never believe this but… I got verbally and physically assaulted and robbed last night in the city, had things thrown at me because of some *** Google Glass haters …” Slocum wrote on her Facebook page.
Several witnesses told KPIX5 that Slocum was very friendly, as were others in the bar who were excited to see the high tech glasses demonstrated.
But then, the witnesses said some people inside the bar got upset about the possibility of being recorded by the glasses. Brian Lester said he watched as a man insulted Slocum, then a man accompanying her retaliated with his fists.
“The crowd was jeering as any last call crowd would do with a fight outside of a bar,” Lester said. “She was running around very excited … and people were telling her, ‘you’re being an *** take those glasses off.”
“I think everybody was just upset that she would be recording outside of a bar this late with obvious embarrassing behavior going on,” Lester added. “And just rather insulted that someone thinks it’s okay to record them the entire time they’re in public.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com ...
Google seems to think nobody has any privacy and they will push the envelope until laws are enacted against them.
A patron at Molotov’s in San Francisco took this photo of Sarah Slocum wearing Google Glass before she said she was attacked on February 21, 2014. (Sagesse Gwinn Graham / CBS)
What could possibly go wrong at a place called “Molotov’s”?
The solution is to require EXCPLICIT AFFIRMATIVE permission to wear those things.
If an esstablishment does not grant explicit permission then the presumption is permission for google glasses is not given.
There has to be a google glasses jammer.
““And just rather insulted that someone thinks it’s okay to record them the entire time they’re in public.”
I’m insulted too...the irony that libtards in Haigh Ashbury who worship the govt would attack a fellow libtard for doing exactly what the govt is supposed to do: track. monitor and tell you what to do.
I would not want someone recording me in public. What is the difference with google glasses and a video camera?
Everyone has a cell phone with a video camera in them too, People record things they see with their eyes in their own internal brain memory..
I would say we have a “Right to record” withing a sphere of arms reach all around us. In the past that right wasn’t recognized because we didn’t have tech to record audio or video. But we could always write down our accounts of what happened to us.
In a way the Genie has been let out of the bottle.
That place serves a rough crowd, you should see what they do to guys who wear white after labor day...
Fitting that she was at an establishment named after a brutal soviet politician.
Evidently there is, they were jammed in her face with a quick right hook.
So you can engage in "embarassing behavior" (something implied BEYOND merely public drinking) in public but be positively ASTONISHED that someone would "violate your expectations of privacy"?
It's San Fransicko. Who knows what they were up to in there.
Another reason I stay home.
I personally believe we’re going to see widespread, worldwide condemnation and disapproval of this product when it goes live to the public. With phones, people can see you with the device up to your ear or up taking a picture. With this thing, people have no idea if they’re being recorded or looked at. It’s disconcerting and a pretty blatant breach of public peace, IMO.
People in the midwest and the south will not adopt this technology willingly. Just my $0.02.
Could do like with smoking, where they have to go outside to Glass...
From the comment section in the article:
ILikeRush • 41 minutes ago
Any time you see those glasses give them a Google Greeting by yanking them off and stomping them.
I agree, but this is first gen also. Just wait, they will have those things so inconspicuous soon enough anyone wearing glasses will be suspect I bet.
I’m on the list to get one. A list that isn’t very exclusive since I got the offer to try them only two days after I put my name on the list and by try, I mean purchase at $1500!
A video camera stays off and in its container when not actually in use to record some specific thing. You can also easily see when it is on and recording.
The problem with Google Glasses is that they're potentially always on, and always recording, and the recordings have a high potential to make it on the Internet.
There are likely lots of people in that bar who would dislike the idea of video of them being there made it to the Net, especially if the video showed them hanging out with somebody other than their spouse.
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