"Pay to the order of Iron Balls McGinty....One Dollar and Nine Cents."
Posted on 07/17/2013 4:21:07 PM PDT by Nachum
At Philz Coffee in Palo Alto, Calif., a kid who looks like he should still be in high school is sitting across from me. He's wearing Google Glass. As I stare into the device's cyborg eye, I'm waiting for its tiny screen to light up.
Then, I wait for a signal that Google Glass has recognized my face.
It isn't supposed to do that, but has hacked it.
"Essentially what I am building is an alternative operating system that runs on Glass but is not controlled by Google," he said.
Balaban wants to make it possible to do all sorts of things with Glass that Google's designers didn't have in mind.
One of the biggest fears about Google Glass is that the proliferation of these head-mounted computers equipped with intelligent cameras will fundamentally .
Google has tried to respond to these fears by designing Glass so it is obvious to the people around these devices when and how they are being used. For example, to take a picture with Google Glass, you need to issue a voice command or tap your temple before the screen lights up.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
One of the biggest fears about Google Glass is that the proliferation of these head-mounted computers equipped with intelligent cameras will fundamentally .
Was this even edited? About what I would expect from Nat'l Progressive Radio.
.......fundamentally erode our privacy.
It’s a link that didn’t copy.
It’s not the article, it’s an artifact of the copy & paste. If you look at the original, all the missing words are hyperlinks... so I’m guessing they just didn’t copy and paste correctly because of the way those are coded in the sites’ html.
I hope google glass users all get virulent brain cancer.
"Pay to the order of Iron Balls McGinty....One Dollar and Nine Cents."
Future apps for Google glass:
An app that ranks the probability that the person you are talking to is lying.
An app that can detect if the person you are talking to thinks “you” are lying.
“...spook politicians who are already asking pointed questions about privacy.”
Guess the government only likes it when the spying goes one way.
No they aren't "overdue". They are too late.
There is no Constitutional right to privacy.
1) Put people in control of their own likeness. There is no way you can avoid being photographed. If noting else, it will occur inadvertently. But you can restrict how other people use your image. I would like to everyone who posts images to the Internet or otherwise distributes them get explicit permission from all involved to do so. Anyone who declines gets their image blurred out. I would make exceptions for family members, etc. The precedent is radio communications. For many years, if you inadvertently overheard a conversation over shortwave or the like, you were not allowed to divulge the contents. This principle recognizes that some things found in the public are not really public.
2) Currently, once a year you are entitled to receive a copy of your credit report. I propose expanding that to include ALL data collected on you which is sold to other entities. Any one who collects or data-mines information about you and then sells it to other parties would be required to make that information available to the individual. It could be delivered in XML format with pre defined tags. A cottage industry will pop up making software to help you understand it.
All this for a device that isn’t yet available to the general public. When Glass is available to the public at large, and things like this happen, I’d see it as a bit more of a worry than a highly-limited device like this.
By the time that happens, it’ll be old hat given the way Google works.
“There is no Constitutional right to privacy.”
4th Amendment
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
That pretty much covers the privacy thing for me.
But it doesn’t specifically say “private” or “privacy” and with all the new tech, the social media, electronic financial information, e-mails, smartphones, etc. people have pretty much lost a lot of their “privacy”.
If you are scanning products in stores they prolly know what you are wiping with and that is the tip of the prairie dog poking his nose out the hole.
And the next time there are mad bombers in town it would save a lot of frog marching if EVERYONE just went out and sat on the curb until instructed further.
“Put people in control of their own likeness.”
A hundred years hence, that notion will be considered just as silly as “cameras steal souls”.
“a signal that Google Glass has recognized my face.”
That’s the app I want most. I suck with names, and would l like little more than something which shows personal data next to everyone I encounter. The technology is here, just needs packaging and distribution.
Loved those X-Ray specs. :)
“All this for a device that isn’t yet available to the general public. When Glass is available to the public at large, and things like this happen, I’d see it as a bit more of a worry than a highly-limited device like this.”
Tablet computers went from practically nonexistent to everywhere in 3 years flat. This thing is highly limited only because it is in final beta testing; general availability will come early next year (if not in time for Christmas shopping).
Your comment is akin to not worrying about an oncoming car because it hasn’t hit you _yet_.
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