Posted on 01/21/2014 10:26:20 AM PST by Red Badger
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57617504-71/google-glass-at-the-movies-gets-man-interrogated/
...In the comments section of her piece, the Gadgeteer’s Julie Strietelmeier insisted: “I talked to the author and know his friend who has frequented The Gadgeteer for years. I believe them and the story.”
I have contacted AMC in an attempt to confirm that the substance of this story is true and will update, should I hear. It will be interesting to see if an anti-Google Glass stance is, indeed, AMC policy...
Don’t know the movie, nor the plot ... will wait until it shows up on HULU for free.
There must be something else about this guy. Google glasses?? Unless the dude is stalking someone??
We should just ban movies. After all, it was an excerpt from a small production movie that caused our Libyan embassy to be attacked.
Just think of how much harm could happen from a big movie production?
Gestapo tactics. Designed to shake a person up and get him to say something that can be used against him.
Yes.
Most people are no match for that kind of interrogation.
Could be. Last week a "demon baby" publicity stunt got national media attention.
Feds respond to a movie theater for a camera?
Sounds fishy.
AMC has interrogation rooms now?
I call BS on this whole story.
If you follow the story links, first it was an MPAA employee on site (yea, right) who made the call to Homeland Security then another story line that said the FBI showed up.......
If you do a google search on movie piracy, you're led to an MPAA website that gives you toll free numbers in various countries in which to call........
Look how long it typically takes law enforcement to respond to a violence call and we're to believe either Homeland Security or the FBI is going to make a run to a local movie theater to check out some guy with Google Glasses????......LOL!
HULU is free?
That’s an excellent point! Even if this never happened, and I do not believe it did (at least the way as reported) remember two individuals: Scooter Libby and Martha Stewart. They were both prosecuted for LYING to investigators. Not for any crime they were being investigated for in the first place, but just for not telling the truth in Stewarts case, and forgetting and miss-stating in Libby’s case.
If the FBI wanted to, they could probably sit us down, ask a couple of hundred questions, and use our answers to “prove” we were not being truthful and therefore lying under oath, a felony. A successful prosecution would mean you have no gun rights. Think on that for a moment.
From: Walls, Khaalid H [mailto:Khaalid.H.Walls@ice.dhs.gov]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:16 PM
To: Allison Manning
Subject: ICE
H Ally,
Please attribute the below statement to me:
On Jan. 18, special agents with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations and local authorities briefly interviewed a man suspected of using an electronic recording device to record a film at an AMC theater in Columbus. The man, who voluntarily answered questions, confirmed to authorities that the suspected recording device was also a pair of
prescription eye glasses in which the recording function had been inactive. No further action was taken.
Khaalid Walls, ICE spokesman
Khaalid WallsSince the article has a phone number and email address, I suggest concerned citizens ask if this is appropriate use of ICE agents, when we have so many illegal aliens in our borders... Oh yes, Hussein wants them to stop deporting them. Guess they have other laws to enforce...
Public Affairs Officer
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
313-226-0726
313-215-7657(m)
The same thing as google glasses, and you can record with it, and probably no one will notice.
.....and “where were you during the Benghazi attack and why did you order a stand-down?”
Interesting to see AMC designs interrogation rooms into their cinema floor plans. I wonder how often they are used.
I lived and worked in Hollywood for several years. Practically everyone knows someone who works in the industry, and copies of movies are always floating around before they even hit the theaters. Thousands of studio employees all bring them home, they make copies for all their friends and relatives and neighbors... everyone has them. And they’re good copies too... not some crap recorded in a theater by some amateur.
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