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Everybody nowadays is walking around with high quality cameras in their pockets that can be switched on within a few seconds. Look on youtube for tons of smartp
by guelo 13y ago
Everybody nowadays is walking around with high quality cameras in their pockets that can be switched on within a few seconds. Look on youtube for tons of smartphone video of fights, crimes, arrests, etc. I still fail to see how Google Glass changes anything.
- azakai 13y agoWith glass, people do not know they are being filmed, unlike when a cellphone or camera are pointed.
- k3n 13y agoOnly because they don't know what Glass is yet; the same could be said for John Q. Public back when the first cell phone shipped with a camera. Also, it's still possible to film covertly with a cell phone, whether it's rigging it into your clothing somehow, or simply holding it up and pretending to talk on it. Google wasn't even the first to incorporate a video recorder into eyeglasses...
- azakai 13y agoTrue, this is just an incremental change in that direction, but a significant one I think.
- jamesjyu 13y agoEventually devices like Glass will be too small to detect.
- ErikAugust 13y agoRight - and there are already much subtler devices like Memoto (http://memoto.com/ http://memoto.com/) that have been created for the purpose of continuously logging photos. The obvious progression for Memoto, I'd think, is video.
- k3n 13y agoEventually? Although I've not tried them myself, a quick search of the internet pulls up numerous "spy" cameras built into all sorts of things, including eye glasses, that are virtually undetectable. One example I found: http://www.homesecuritystore.com/p-2319-dvr290-hidden-camera-glasses-w-built-in-dvr.aspx http://www.homesecuritystore.com/p-2319-dvr290-hidden-camera...
- pitchups 13y agoThey do know they are being filmed (or will know once these devices become more common), as there is a red light that flashes on the glass when it is recording. However, that could easily change in the future too - with hidden cameras that constantly record everything becoming more common.
- mitchty 13y agoSo if I put some paint over that light, no more red light while recording. I find the argument that a light will make our privacy ok not all that convincing.
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- uptown 13y agoYou sure about that? I haven't tried it in-person, but this description in the "First Encounter" seems to directly contradict what you said: http://blog.launch.co/blog/the-unbearable-wearable-google-glass-is-brilliant-loathsome.html http://blog.launch.co/blog/the-unbearable-wearable-google-gl... How close do you need to be to see the flashing red light?
- Zergy 13y agoNot too hard to point a phone at someone and pretend to text.
- Karunamon 13y agoThe difference between: * Retrieve phone from pocket/purse/backpack * Unlock phone * Launch recording app * Start recording (ensuring phone is in the right orientation) * Hold phone out in front of you in an uncomfortable way so you can both record and see what you're doing. and: * Tap on temple or say "OK glass, record a video" * Look at what you want to record The passivity and ease of access of Glass is its greatest asset, and precisely the reason it's a game changer.. Replace recording with looking up something online, same thing. One feels contrived and annoying (the tech being in the way of what we want to do), the other smooth and natural (the tech just simply doing what we want).
- johnrob 13y agoThe first list is missing one bullet (at the bottom): * Possibly get arrested
- maxmcd 13y agoIf that bullet exists in the first list, it'll eventually exist in the second. Given enough time.
- atwebb 13y agoBut there's another barrier for arrest, you can't tell if it's recording (or if there's a light, people will hack it/cover it). If 8 people around have glass, it'd be fairly difficult to notice all of them, check for the recordings, and take them. I know miniature cameras exist right now but since they only function as a camera, there's not too much utility to always having one around. Glass though has a camera but that's not it's main selling point.
- nateabele 13y agoI don't think the significance of this can be understated. Two reasons: One, I think the act of pulling something off of someone's face is a lot different from pulling something out of someone's hand. It's subtle on the surface, but crossing that kind of social boundary on a regular enough basis could be exactly the tipping point that turns public opinion against law enforcement on a broad scale. Two, as the technology and form factor mature, it'll simply be harder to tell whether something is/contains a camera or not.
- 6ren 13y agohttp://xkcd.com/1235/ http://xkcd.com/1235/
- angersock 13y ago"I still fail to see how Google Glass changes anything." If, after so many discussions and articles and demos and videos, you can maintain this viewpoint, you may just have to accept that you lack both imagination and foresight.
- contingencies 13y agoOr perhaps simply has a more mature view than Silly-Valley's Google-hype "OMG GLASS WTF LOL GIMMEGIMME CATFIGHT PAW DOG LASTCATSTANDING!@#!@#?"
- angersock 13y agoYour theoretical mature view would hopefully be able to better account for the privacy concerns this gizmo raises.
- contingencies 13y agoThe only thing the successful widespread adoption of glass would achieve is the wholesale and largely irrevocable invasion of social space with corporatized audio and video surveillance for the totalitarian state apparatus, thinly masked as techno-fashion. Sure, it might have some other uses, but other than removing the need to hold a screen this is the only thing it really achieves in terms of recording or data access that's fundamentally different from present era devices.
- angersock 13y agoI'd agree with your statement--however, limiting the scope to only be "recording or data access" rather misses the point. The desktop computer from a "processing or data access" standpoint was not very different from the mainframes or minicomputers at the time--indeed probably much stunted!--but the changes it caused were massive outside of that limited scope. The common argument of "Google Glass is no different a surveillance device than a modern smart phone" is so troublesome precisely because it is accurate without having explanatory power--there are confounding features to Glass that go beyond that simple comparison.
- jusben1369 13y agoThink further back. Amount of video produced prior to digital cameras. Increased amount produced with mobile phones. Soon to be increased amount produced with glasses. Each new form factor increased the availability (always have phone) and ease of shooting video resulting in a boom in the amount of video being produced over the prior form factor.