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I saw someone in a store with those glasses and I had to say I felt a bit weirded out by the thought they could be recording things. Does it indicate to other p

I saw someone in a store with those glasses and I had to say I felt a bit weirded out by the thought they could be recording things. Does it indicate to other people if it is recording? These things are going to run into some social issues I think.

DanBC 14y ago
That's an interesting reaction. You're sort of in public. You're just living your everyday life. The person recording doesn't know you; probably has no interest in you. Why is it a problem that they're recording? (Note that I'm not saying you're wrong! Or that you should change your mind!) Candid photography has provided some fantastic photographs over the years. There's some amazing social commentary. With a bit of luck we'll get something similar (as well as petabytes of junk) from people recording everyday life.
- scrumper 14y ago
  > Why is it a problem that they're recording? It's a problem because while I don't expect privacy in public, I do expect my presence to be transitory and under my control. The two seconds I spend scratching my arse walking down the street are forgotten by all who saw it instantly, but not if that moment is immortalised in flash memory. When my wife's skirt blows up in an autumn breeze she gets embarrassed, I get amused and the van drivers get titillated. We've all forgotten it minutes later; now some passing pervert with terminator glasses can grab a freeze frame and share her misfortune with the world. Henri Cartier-Bresson didn't have his camera up to his eye constantly. By the time he'd reacted to her skirt billowing up and readied his camera she'd have yanked it down again.
  - btipling 14y ago
    I feel like someone should invent a directed emp pulse weapon so I can disable these permanently whenever I see them. What a horrible future awaits us. I hope Google glass fails. I realize this is inevitable, but I'm not ready, and neither is my family.
    - DanBC 14y ago
      Let's hope they don't have a pacemaker.
- rimantas 14y ago
  Your candid photo is not connected to Google servers which can be doing… well, whatever they please.
VLM 14y ago
The store probably has CCTV cams recording you already...
- jkaunisv1 14y ago
  That's different. The store isn't taking their (low-quality, single perspective) cctv feeds and uploading them to Facebook for others to see.
mediacrisis 14y ago
Its only a matter of time before someone decides to upload videos of people rejecting them at bars with accompanying "woe is me" commentary and resulting subreddit.
potatolicious 14y ago
This has already been happening for years, though in a more curated/artistic way. Google up the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Elliott Erwitt, Bruce Gilden, Daido Moriyama, Garry Winogrand, Nan Goldin, etc. As a street shooter myself, I've observed that most people's reactions to being photographed is somewhere between ambivalent and happy - the HN crowd's attitudes re: being photographed is decidedly non-mainstream. Though I'll admit, there is a difference between being photographed with reason (some action, your clothes, your location, whatever), even by a stranger, than being photographed as part of a kitchen-sink recording activity.
- saraid216 14y ago
  Or to put it more pointedly, Go look at half the captioned-photo memes on the internet. Not all of them were self-recorded.
- paganel 14y ago
  > As a street shooter myself, I've observed that most people's reactions to being photographed is somewhere between ambivalent and happy I never take photos on people on the streets, I'm only interested in taking photos of buildings in my city. Even so, I've been verbally assaulted because of that at least 3 times (apparently it's ok to threaten some skinny dude with beating him up and swearing on his mother if you see him taking photos of dilapidated buildings with his phone). Yes, I do not live in Silicon Valley nor in any similar cocoon-like area as those advertised in Google's presentation videos, I live in an Eastern European capital city of 2.5 million people, but hey, we're not that big of a market anyway.
  - potatolicious 14y ago
    I don't live in the Valley either ;) AFAIK NYC is not particularly cocoon-like, nor SF or Toronto where I've also done a lot of shooting. There are strategies to shooting on the street - you have a tremendous amount of control over how people react to your activities. How you project your presence can be the difference between being bullied and harassed vs. being left alone or even being assisted.

DanBC 14y ago

That's an interesting reaction. You're sort of in public. You're just living your everyday life. The person recording doesn't know you; probably has no interest in you. Why is it a problem that they're recording? (Note that I'm not saying you're wrong! Or that you should change your mind!) Candid photography has provided some fantastic photographs over the years. There's some amazing social commentary. With a bit of luck we'll get something similar (as well as petabytes of junk) from people recording everyday life.

scrumper 14y ago
> Why is it a problem that they're recording? It's a problem because while I don't expect privacy in public, I do expect my presence to be transitory and under my control. The two seconds I spend scratching my arse walking down the street are forgotten by all who saw it instantly, but not if that moment is immortalised in flash memory. When my wife's skirt blows up in an autumn breeze she gets embarrassed, I get amused and the van drivers get titillated. We've all forgotten it minutes later; now some passing pervert with terminator glasses can grab a freeze frame and share her misfortune with the world. Henri Cartier-Bresson didn't have his camera up to his eye constantly. By the time he'd reacted to her skirt billowing up and readied his camera she'd have yanked it down again.
- btipling 14y ago
  I feel like someone should invent a directed emp pulse weapon so I can disable these permanently whenever I see them. What a horrible future awaits us. I hope Google glass fails. I realize this is inevitable, but I'm not ready, and neither is my family.
  - DanBC 14y ago
    Let's hope they don't have a pacemaker.
rimantas 14y ago
Your candid photo is not connected to Google servers which can be doing… well, whatever they please.

VLM 14y ago

The store probably has CCTV cams recording you already...

jkaunisv1 14y ago
That's different. The store isn't taking their (low-quality, single perspective) cctv feeds and uploading them to Facebook for others to see.

mediacrisis 14y ago

Its only a matter of time before someone decides to upload videos of people rejecting them at bars with accompanying "woe is me" commentary and resulting subreddit.

potatolicious 14y ago

This has already been happening for years, though in a more curated/artistic way. Google up the works of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Elliott Erwitt, Bruce Gilden, Daido Moriyama, Garry Winogrand, Nan Goldin, etc. As a street shooter myself, I've observed that most people's reactions to being photographed is somewhere between ambivalent and happy - the HN crowd's attitudes re: being photographed is decidedly non-mainstream. Though I'll admit, there is a difference between being photographed with reason (some action, your clothes, your location, whatever), even by a stranger, than being photographed as part of a kitchen-sink recording activity.

saraid216 14y ago
Or to put it more pointedly, Go look at half the captioned-photo memes on the internet. Not all of them were self-recorded.
paganel 14y ago
> As a street shooter myself, I've observed that most people's reactions to being photographed is somewhere between ambivalent and happy I never take photos on people on the streets, I'm only interested in taking photos of buildings in my city. Even so, I've been verbally assaulted because of that at least 3 times (apparently it's ok to threaten some skinny dude with beating him up and swearing on his mother if you see him taking photos of dilapidated buildings with his phone). Yes, I do not live in Silicon Valley nor in any similar cocoon-like area as those advertised in Google's presentation videos, I live in an Eastern European capital city of 2.5 million people, but hey, we're not that big of a market anyway.
- potatolicious 14y ago
  I don't live in the Valley either ;) AFAIK NYC is not particularly cocoon-like, nor SF or Toronto where I've also done a lot of shooting. There are strategies to shooting on the street - you have a tremendous amount of control over how people react to your activities. How you project your presence can be the difference between being bullied and harassed vs. being left alone or even being assisted.