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The article also missed the other gotcha on the books which is to sell use someone's picture in advertising you need a model release form. So that puts Google i

The article also missed the other gotcha on the books which is to sell use someone's picture in advertising you need a model release form. So that puts Google into somewhat murky legal water if they intend to sell advertising based on pictures of people captured by the glasses. And that's before the Government subpoenas the feed from the camera and turns you into a walking CCTV. Orwell would have been so proud of Google...

mitchty 14y ago
Actually i'm curious now that every car will soon have its own black box how if this technology becomes ubiquitous what the law enforcement agencies start asking for. As cool as google glasses are, imagine they become "effectively needed" as a technology. Then it becomes almost a foregone conclusion that law enforcement will want access to it. While I can imagine bad outcomes, what about things like alibis and so forth? We always touch on the bad uses of technology, but for once can we approach this from the opposite direction? Along the lines of the Russian meteorite, lots of video was captured by chance due to dashboard cameras meant for stopping fraud. Lets imagine a society that has equal access to everyone elses google glasses streams. While I can imagine a dystopia, I can also imagine some rather interesting societal developments from it as well. I'm thinking along the lines of a short story I read a while back where everyone had their upper vertebra removed and some tech installed that would record everything a person saw/did literally and everyone else could know when other people looked at their own data and when. Aka, ooh i need to call bob, but lets see what he's up to first because I don't want to interrupt him, oh he's with susan at a good restaurant, guess it can wait. I think this technology could have great uses as much as it could have bad. I only expect bad use from our government and police forces, but that is more because they always want more access. But the converse is think about crowds, we could start identifying agent provocateurs, and mass recording and uploading bad acts. These are as much an agent for change in the system as they are for oppression not? Thoughts? I'm just rambling now and need to shut up, if you read this far I owe you one beer. :)
- nswanberg 14y ago
  Internet access and cell phones have become effectively needed technology, and so far appear to have been a net benefit. The internet increased the amount of shared data, cell phones increased the sharing and consumption (in the case of smart phones) of data, and Glass will increase the generation of data. What benefits can that extra data have? Email me if you ever make it to Boulder and I will collect the beer. ;)
  - mitchty 14y ago
    Heh will do, in Raleigh atm though so no go for that area atm. :) Was just trying to look at the idea of ubiquitous technology from the positive side of things. I love conspiracy theories but I just get the nagging feeling that we're over worrying about downsides to this specific situation.

mitchty 14y ago

Actually i'm curious now that every car will soon have its own black box how if this technology becomes ubiquitous what the law enforcement agencies start asking for. As cool as google glasses are, imagine they become "effectively needed" as a technology. Then it becomes almost a foregone conclusion that law enforcement will want access to it. While I can imagine bad outcomes, what about things like alibis and so forth? We always touch on the bad uses of technology, but for once can we approach this from the opposite direction? Along the lines of the Russian meteorite, lots of video was captured by chance due to dashboard cameras meant for stopping fraud. Lets imagine a society that has equal access to everyone elses google glasses streams. While I can imagine a dystopia, I can also imagine some rather interesting societal developments from it as well. I'm thinking along the lines of a short story I read a while back where everyone had their upper vertebra removed and some tech installed that would record everything a person saw/did literally and everyone else could know when other people looked at their own data and when. Aka, ooh i need to call bob, but lets see what he's up to first because I don't want to interrupt him, oh he's with susan at a good restaurant, guess it can wait. I think this technology could have great uses as much as it could have bad. I only expect bad use from our government and police forces, but that is more because they always want more access. But the converse is think about crowds, we could start identifying agent provocateurs, and mass recording and uploading bad acts. These are as much an agent for change in the system as they are for oppression not? Thoughts? I'm just rambling now and need to shut up, if you read this far I owe you one beer. :)

nswanberg 14y ago
Internet access and cell phones have become effectively needed technology, and so far appear to have been a net benefit. The internet increased the amount of shared data, cell phones increased the sharing and consumption (in the case of smart phones) of data, and Glass will increase the generation of data. What benefits can that extra data have? Email me if you ever make it to Boulder and I will collect the beer. ;)
- mitchty 14y ago
  Heh will do, in Raleigh atm though so no go for that area atm. :) Was just trying to look at the idea of ubiquitous technology from the positive side of things. I love conspiracy theories but I just get the nagging feeling that we're over worrying about downsides to this specific situation.