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There is a lot I don't like about Google, but Google Maps, Project Glass, and the automated cars are nothing but inspiring. Just the fact that they transported

• disordinary 14y ago
  It's not laudable it's laughable, you want to go to Paris? Go to Paris.
  • kmfrk 14y ago
    Not everyone has that privilege.
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• nsmartt 14y ago
  Though Glass is amazing, it will give a whole new meaning to tracking user information. As you get information regarding what you're seeing, Google is logging everything you see. A map with with a line detailing everywhere you've been over the course of years. A video displaying everything you saw on your real trip to Paris or wherever else-- not based on what you saw that day, but based on the information Google has about that area, those landmarks, etc. Privacy could cease to exist while you're wearing Google Glass.
  • tomkarlo 14y ago
    Recording alone is doesn't equate to a loss of privacy. If you kept detailed written notes on everywhere you go, as long as those notes don't get disclosed to anyone else, you haven't lost any privacy. Taking a paranoid and oversimplified approach to privacy makes it's more difficult to have the complex, nuanced discussions necessary to actually protect privacy in meaningful ways.
    • nsmartt 14y ago
      I don't agree with your accusation of paranoia. Keeping detailed notes on everywhere you go isn't something that would be done as lightly as putting on a pair of glasses. You would consider the implications of the existence of that data before keeping it. With something like Glass, that part of the process gets skipped. The argument for trusting Google with your data is that their privacy policy keeps your data safe. I don't doubt that Google has the best of intentions, but that doesn't mean my data is safe. A snooping employee, a change in policy that isn't necessarily over the line but isn't comforting either, security breaches, subpoenas (in the spirit of http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/8/twitter-fights-subpoena-in-nyc-occupy-arrest-case/ http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/8/twitter-fight...). There are a lot of ways that having that data in someone else's pocket can backfire. Yes, it would be fine if there were some guarantee that no one could ever see my data. There isn't. It was not my intention to oversimplify anything. The last thing I want is to cause damage to the cause. Edit: grammar
      • tomkarlo 14y ago
        It's not paranoid when you include the caveats, as you do here. But to simply say that "Privacy could cease to exist while you're wearing Google Glass" is fear mongering, or paranoia. That statement is both staggerly broad in nature and at the same time, unqualified. At least Google Glass is an _opt-in_ form of monitoring and observation. If you don't want to wear it, you don't have to. If you want to take it off, you can. Those aspects alone mean it's a lot less worrisome than existing, and much more involuntary, invasions of our privacy.
        • marshray 14y ago
          Privacy could cease to exist while you're wearing Google Glass Sounds about right to me and I'd be extremely skeptical of any claims to the contrary. The default result of any data entering a computer system owned by someone else is that it is no longer private. Specifically the US, the government considers any data held by a commercial entity to be fair game. Compare to: Privacy could cease to exist while you're chatting on Facebook
  • polshaw 14y ago
    > A map with with a line detailing everywhere you've been over the course of years... Sort of like.. hmm.. cell phones? You lost this privacy years ago, at least to governments.
    • nsmartt 14y ago
      Yes, like cell phones, but no. Privacy hasn't died yet. The problem isn't that Google Glass exists or that cell phones exist. The problem is awareness. The problem is the same for cell phones.