Glass intrudes in private spaces normally off-limits to CCTV, and it's internet connected so could easily stream the video. Worse than that, the corporation pro

Glass intrudes in private spaces normally off-limits to CCTV, and it's internet connected so could easily stream the video. Worse than that, the corporation providing it has shown they're interested in collecting as much information as possible (e.g. trawling for wireless data with streetview cars). Such centralised information banks give that corporation a lot of power and are vulnerable to retrospective government requests for the data. Google has enough info about me as it is thanks (search, analytics, docs, emails, now video). That's completely different to most closed circuit TV cameras which record for a limited time and without great quality, for purposes like security against burglary. Just as I'd object to having a permanently on internet-connected camera in my home, I'd also object to someone wearing Google Glass there. Even more objectionable would be hundreds of thousands of google connected video cameras walking the streets. Maybe that makes me unusual, but apparently not given the reception of Glass. The camera was a terrible mistake from my perspective and completely put me off the possibility of owning it, and also puts me off Google the company for condoning such an obvious invasion of the privacy of others without their consent, and people who wear it for being so tone deaf - it would be like walking around with your camera phone permanently switched on pointing at your focus of attention - how weird and creepy. The whole thing reminds me of The Entire History of You or the telescreens in 1984 - I don't want to record everything I do, nor do I want others to do so without my consent, just as I don't want everything I write on the internet to be retrievable in an instant catalogued against every alias I've ever used. Maybe that will happen one day and there's nothing we can do about it, but there are definitely downsides. PS I'm not perfectly fine with omnipresent CCTV or NSA data collection either; nice straw man.