A kind of rant. Not for nothing, but I do understand that my EZ-Pass coupled with my Smartphone and use of an Amex Card means that everything I do except for defecating is documented, tracked and recorded.
I don’t care. I would never resort to physical violence by way of expressing my distaste, but short of touching someone, well, God help the person who is in my proximity while using Google Glass.
I do not exist to be videoed and broadcast moment to moment. While there’s plenty of case law that proves that I’ve no reasonable expectation of privacy in public spaces- and in many private spaces- I don’t give a fuck.
You stare at me with those things on, you should expect to be verbally abused to the absolute limit of the law and then some if I can get away with it. Taking my photo and video recording my every move and streaming it live as I walk down the street and sit in a café is the purvey of law enforcement. And nobody else.
You want to create a recorded document of your every forward step in life? Coolio. Wear a huge bright day-glo pink t shirt announcing that anyone in front of you will be videoed and their image broadcast.
This device crosses so many personal and human boundaries, it is simply disgusting. I’m all about embracing my technology. This is beyond the pale.
Don’t be a Glasshole or if you must be one, then embrace the barrage of verbal abuse that you’ve invited to be rained down upon yourself.
Hate to tell you this, but somebody has hacked your smartphone – they got into the camera, now even the time you spend in the reading room is no longer private (though youtube does seem to keep pulling the videos).
That’s a weird damned attitude for a guy who makes a living staring through a camera. Tell me you’ve never shot a crowd or took a photograph of someone who didn’t know they were having their picture taken.
While Google Glass is slight different in that it’s constantly on, I don’t see it as drastically different than the plethora of Go Pros, camera phones, and security cams that are currently running around me. I assume that if I’m doing something obnoxious or disgusting enough to inspire a Glass wearer to clip out a video and put it on YouTube, then everyone else within sight is going to be capturing the same thing on their Samsungs or iPhones. So unless you want to broaden your vendetta to everyone who’s carrying anything electronic with a lens, you probably should chill.
Interesting. No, I don’t go around stalking strangers and videotaping them. That’s immoral, and rude, and not what a professional does. To me- and this may be a line too fine for some- taking a still photograph of someone on the street is not at all in the same league as Google Glass. It’s just not. It’s a fraction of a second captured. Fine by me if someone gets me in their smartphone photo.
It is the in-your-face realtime video aspect of the device that has me distressed.
As for Go Pros, they’re üuber-wide angle and to my way of thinking have nothing to do with Google Glass. Security cameras, I addressed above.
Once again, Cartooniverse enters the Pit, makes an ass out of himself.
Sure, big man. I like totes believe that you’d throw a tantrum if you saw someone with Google Glasses looking at you, 'cuz you’re so super-tough and all. :rolleyes:
Oh yeah, I almost forgot about this: one week, the local morning news outfitted some of the anchors and employees with Google Glass, and broadcast a “live” view from the Google Glass video camera as part of the news program (for example, an anchor wearing Google Glass would be recording the camera crew in front of them). The video quality was horrible, and the frame rate was so jerky that it almost made me sick to my stomach…and I’m not prone to motion sickness at all.
I don’t think the OP needs to be worried just yet.
It’s a sure-fire way to ensure that you’re going to be recorded on Google Glass, that’s to be sure, as opposed to all the other background people that are just going about their lives.
What is this “Google Glass” of which you speak? I stick to the proper term, which should be used by everyone as a way of indicating the device’s social acceptability: UpskirtCam.
Did you realize that people have memories? That they can pull up images and scenes in their head of you every day, whenever they want, without telling you?! They can remember you and what you did in front of them at any time!
Someone may be masturbating to memories of you right now and you will never know!
