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With glass, people do not know they are being filmed, unlike when a cellphone or camera are pointed.
by azakai 13y ago
With 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.