WTF

[apathy!]

I'll never sit across anyone who wears these. I saw on 60 minutes last night video drones that fly, operate, and look like hummingbirds. I have real hummingbirds outside my house every day, and now I'll have to get close to it to make sure it's not a fucking drone?! There already non-clandestine drone hobbyists in my neighborhood and it pisses me off to see them flying around.



I train a very dynamic staff martial art out on large beaches or forests with few people around. About half the time I do, I'll catch some asshole anywhere from 50 to 70 feet away sticking his camera phone up in the air directly at me while I'm training. I always stop immediately and give a death stare, where they either pretend they weren't about to record me or demure off quickly in guilt.

I agree with you. This post is just hilarious for some reason though. Just imagining you running 'round killing birds with a bow staff. I must be in a strange mood.

edit: I think it's this sentence:

"There already non-clandestine drone hobbyists in my neighborhood and it pisses me off to see them flying around. "


lol

[Icarium]

Think you are only going to get more upset since I don't think the trend with regards to gadgets/"privacy" is going to reverse. Technology will only continue to make devices smaller and more pervasive.

Wouldn't hold my breath that legislation will solve anything either since its doubtful legal systems are agile enough to even try to keep pace. Maybe after patent laws gets fixed (doubtful it ever will).

[apathy!]

meh I don't even think it needs to be a legal thing. It can just be a social thing.


Would you spend time with epople who are always glassing each other?

[Faust]

Just think of all the new porn possibilities that will be made available by google glass.

Golden post that got lost in the scramble.

[lowrey]

It's one thing to carry a device capable of recording and another thing to have it pointing at whatever you're looking at at all times

This is what I think the biggest gripe with them is and will be. Of course the environment makes a big difference.

[Shucks]

Jerry Seinfeld on How to Not Be a Jerk in the Digital Age

[Chinorlz]

This is what I think the biggest gripe with them is and will be. Of course the environment makes a big difference.

Very true. Itll be an issue of social acceptance for sure. That being said, I think it will happen eventually. We dont think twice now about pulling out our phone to record some event (funny arguments on a train etc.) Or to snap photos of people at WalMart amd no one says a word against it. We have all been taking surreptitious photos and videos of each other without consent now for years. Glass, being a minority product on the market and being such a differently carried device is a new scapegoat for this subject.

The same arguments existed at the advent of camera phones and after everyone got one, no one complained anymore.

[bukka]

Very true. Itll be an issue of social acceptance for sure. That being said, I think it will happen eventually. We dont think twice now about pulling out our phone to record some event (funny arguments on a train etc.) Or to snap photos of people at WalMart amd no one says a word against it. We have all been taking surreptitious photos and videos of each other without consent now for years. Glass, being a minority product on the market and being such a differently carried device is a new scapegoat for this subject.

The same arguments existed at the advent of camera phones and after everyone got one, no one complained anymore.

I'd rather say that no one listens to people saying a word against it...
It's not because privacy is constantly abused and that no one knows how to properly refrain those issues that people should agree with it.

[Law]

This was some time ago, but wasn't a woman accosted and literally attacked in a San Francisco bar for wearing Google glasses? I believe I saw it on CNN if I'm not mistaken.

[Shucks]

yeah that happened. and google glass is banned in several bars/restaurants in SF. there's a pretty strong general hostility towards tech companies building in the city, due them parasitizing on infrastructure (google buses etc), due to rents spiraling out of control from gentrification (techies moving in), and due to massive ellis act evictions in order to rent housing out through airbnb etc.

[Chinorlz]

yeah that happened. and google glass is banned in several bars/restaurants in SF. there's a pretty strong general hostility towards tech companies building in the city, due them parasitizing on infrastructure (google buses etc), due to rents spiraling out of control from gentrification (techies moving in), and due to massive ellis act evictions in order to rent housing out through airbnb etc.

Yep! I feel like the ban is more of a statement against the tech companies in general rather than the inherent device.

We are all on camera everywhere we go be it handheld, surveillance etc. Isn't London one of the places in the world where there literally is not a "blind spot"? The choice is no longer ours in regards to wanting to retain anonymity/privacy to the extent that some of us may wish.

To me, Glass is a tool just like any other piece of equipment and can be abused or used. Just depends on the wearer and their level of responsibility in its use like others have noted and linked above.

[Icarium]

Imo the tech industry is being partly scapegoated... as they clearly aren't the only culprit in the sf housing crisis. There's a lot of foreign (Chinese) money as well that doesn't get as much press/backlash, but its even more complicated than that.

Techcrunch posted a really good article covering the ins and outs in case anyone actually cares: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/

Fundamentally housing in this region is very much supply/demand and the supply is growing at 1/100th what it needs to be and demand is driven by not just tech.

[Shucks]

you don't work for google, do you?

techcrunch aren't exactly unbiased on this issue...

[lowrey]

Very true. Itll be an issue of social acceptance for sure. That being said, I think it will happen eventually. We dont think twice now about pulling out our phone to record some event (funny arguments on a train etc.) Or to snap photos of people at WalMart amd no one says a word against it. We have all been taking surreptitious photos and videos of each other without consent now for years. Glass, being a minority product on the market and being such a differently carried device is a new scapegoat for this subject.

The same arguments existed at the advent of camera phones and after everyone got one, no one complained anymore.

I don't think those type of situations are a good example though because they are usually filmed candid anyway, doesn't matter what the equipment is. I think its more about being able to photograph or tape something without pulling out a recording device and shoving it in someones face. I mean, pretty much everyone would certainly have a word against that, but with a werable recording device you can, in theory, capture anything without it being as obvious as it would with camera phones. thats the main difference imo.

Of course, this doesn't apply in any way when we are talking about using it in a professional environment or a variety of other practical situations.

[DudleyGray]

Ah hell, maybe it's not such a bad thing, being forced to act how you would if any moment could be played out repeatedly for all practical eternity. It almost sounds Nietzschean.