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Society disagrees with you. Current societies have a rule that I have in most cases a right to be not recorded by you, even in public spaces. This is not always

Society disagrees with you. Current societies have a rule that I have in most cases a right to be not recorded by you, even in public spaces. This is not always made a law, but is a general norm of society. Your hypotheticals about digital memories: we will cross that bridge when we get there.

aninhumer 12y ago
My impression is these days society doesn't care about recording in public spaces unless you're actually following someone around with a camera without their consent. There were similar objections when camera phones first came out, but people eventually realised that just having the camera doesn't mean you're recording everything around you. I suspect there will be a similar realisation with glass.
- Silhouette 12y ago
  Sometimes it's not about what you're doing, but what you can be seen to be doing. Objections about camera phones have subsided because people understand them better. Unless someone is pointing the phone at you, which is usually an obvious action and not something that is widely done covertly, you aren't being photographed. But there are still concerns: I'm about to go vote in an election where there will almost certainly be "no camera" signs up at the polling station and specific advice against taking selfies that might inadvertently contravene laws about disclosing who voted for whom. You have no such guarantees with a camera that by design is always looking out with the wearer and doesn't advertise whether it's recording or not.
- abdullahkhalids 12y ago
  Yes. I agree. Our need/want for privacy is generally being eroded as we interact with new technology. This is not necessarily a good or bad thing. We get to judge continuously each available technology - old and new . Current consensus is that Google glass is creepy. Future consensus might be different.
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greggman 12y ago
Society doesn't disagree with me. People report with their memory what they see other people do all the time without permission of the person their reporting about. They've been doing that since communication started, long before cameras, long before even pens and paper. The only difference is in the future I'll have augmented eyes and an augmented brain and be able to share perfect digital copies of my memories. Society will realize it's the same as it's always been. Those people trying to be thought police and telling me what I can and can't remember and how I can and can't remember and who I can share my memories with will be seen just as silly as they are today for non-augmented memories.

aninhumer 12y ago

My impression is these days society doesn't care about recording in public spaces unless you're actually following someone around with a camera without their consent. There were similar objections when camera phones first came out, but people eventually realised that just having the camera doesn't mean you're recording everything around you. I suspect there will be a similar realisation with glass.

Silhouette 12y ago
Sometimes it's not about what you're doing, but what you can be seen to be doing. Objections about camera phones have subsided because people understand them better. Unless someone is pointing the phone at you, which is usually an obvious action and not something that is widely done covertly, you aren't being photographed. But there are still concerns: I'm about to go vote in an election where there will almost certainly be "no camera" signs up at the polling station and specific advice against taking selfies that might inadvertently contravene laws about disclosing who voted for whom. You have no such guarantees with a camera that by design is always looking out with the wearer and doesn't advertise whether it's recording or not.
abdullahkhalids 12y ago
Yes. I agree. Our need/want for privacy is generally being eroded as we interact with new technology. This is not necessarily a good or bad thing. We get to judge continuously each available technology - old and new . Current consensus is that Google glass is creepy. Future consensus might be different.

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greggman 12y ago

Society doesn't disagree with me. People report with their memory what they see other people do all the time without permission of the person their reporting about. They've been doing that since communication started, long before cameras, long before even pens and paper. The only difference is in the future I'll have augmented eyes and an augmented brain and be able to share perfect digital copies of my memories. Society will realize it's the same as it's always been. Those people trying to be thought police and telling me what I can and can't remember and how I can and can't remember and who I can share my memories with will be seen just as silly as they are today for non-augmented memories.