Posted on 02/25/2014 8:58:19 AM PST by rawhide
You're very wrong. It's a matter of scale. Privacy does exist - it is being encroached on massively, but it does exist. Google Glass is an attempt to bring about its total destruction.
Your position is designed to get people to give up. Now why would you want that? Hmmm?
We’re already under 24/7 surveillance, have been for longer than there’s been a Google.
The glasses have potential use way past the recording, it’s just the recording that all the luddite mobs obsess on. Anything you can do with your smartphone will eventually be able to be done with Google Glass hands free. Want directions, there they are, movie times, bang, find a restaurant, easy. In the end it’s a smartphone, funny how nobody freaked about sticking cameras in them. The paranoid crowd needs to get over themselves, the cows left a long time ago, the doors have rotted and fallen off, complaining about the barn now is a whole generation too late.
Sorry but you’re too late. The fact that somebody used a cellphone to take a picture of her shows why you, and everybody else complaining about these things, are wrong. Privacy in the public square does not exist. Guarantee that bar has surveillance video, and half the people watching the fight were probably recording it on their cells.
My position is acknowledging reality. I don’t want people to give up, I want them to WAKE UP. Their objections to Google Glasses are objections that probably should have been raised in the 80s when the mass surveillance world began, maybe again in the 90s when cameras started getting added to cellphones. You’re 30 years too late, this stuff is already out there, the only question now is how small and convenient it will be by this time next year. It’s already pervasive and will get more so.
Like I said, your position advises despair and giving up, and that the war is already lost.
Because obviously, everyone needs information about movie times in heads up displays, and a constant radio transmission next to your brain is a small price to pay for that necessity.
Duly noted.
Not advising despair at all. Just pointing out reality. We are in the post privacy world:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=surveillance%20camera%20caught&sm=1
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cell%20camera%20caught&sm=3
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dash%20cam&sm=1
have been for a long time. If you weren’t objecting back then when it might have mattered there no reason to complain now. Nothing has functionally changed, all that’s happened now is that one of these devices has gotten smaller and easier to use.
Doesn’t matter what people need, it’s what they want, it’s why they buy smartphones in the first place, and why they get Bluetooth headsets and Siri. Once again, nothing about this is new, it’s just gotten smaller and added a screen.
Mrs. Ed, I presume?
I had one of those and it stopped recording on it’s own after about ten seconds.
It is illegal in many states to record people without their knowledge-consent
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