Project glass - new and cool or Big Brotherish?

[Clinton Huxley]

Sorry for re-railing this thread, but I think that while the potential for misuse by the authorities is there, it's more "little brother" than "Big Brother".
If only Senior Party Members and Thought Police were allowed to have them, then Orwellian fears would be justified, but
a. like mobile phones, when significant numbers of people are using those things, who could seriously be arsed (let alone able) to monitor all of them?
b. Surveillance is the domain of authoritarian types. "Sousveillance" scares the fuck out of them. Who watches the watchers? WE DO!
For these and other reasons... WANT!

According to the info coming out of Snowden, GCHQ is busting a gut to hoover up as much mobile phone traffic as it can. It will do the same with these glasses, if it can. The govt will be able to see what you are seeing....

[Coito ergo sum]

Soon it will arouse suspicion among the authorities if a person avoids devices which have this capability.

"Oh, you don't want a smart tv, google glasses, and electronic Z-Wave locks on your house? What have you got to hide?"

[Clinton Huxley]

If you haven't done anything wrong, you've nothing to hide and therefore will have no qualms about living in a panopticon.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

I've just thought of a great use for them...Make all police officers wear them and record and store everything they do, see and say on publicly accessible databases.

[Coito ergo sum]

I've just thought of a great use for them...Make all police officers wear them and record and store everything they do, see and say on publicly accessible databases.

Very nice. Unlike those dash cams that seem to get shut off at certain moments...

[trdsf]

Google Glass? Complete waste of time and technology. No one -- least of all a huge infocorp and the government organizations they decide to feed and the advertisers they sell out to -- needs to know where I am and what I'm looking at all the time.

Big Brother concerns aside, the first time a pop-up ad comes up while looking at something -- and you know that's going to happen -- will be mere microseconds before I grind the goddamn thing under my foot. No, I do not believe Google when they say they won't do that. They've long since dispensed with their old "Don't Be Evil" policy. I'm having enough trouble preventing them from forcing Google+ down my throat; at some point in the last couple years, they've adopted Microsoft's Stalinesque approach to "delivering" product to customers. Case in point, the Chrome AUP: the reason I don't use it is because they reserve the right to reach out to your system and disable any browser add-ons that they want to -- that's a deal-breaker in my book.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Wonder how long it'll be before someone is killed by a Viagra ad popping up while they're driving.

[JimC]

Tourists beware - when a Glaswegian says "I'll glass ye, jimmy", he is not kindly offering to provide you with a Google Glass...

[Mysturji]

Sorry for re-railing this thread, but I think that while the potential for misuse by the authorities is there, it's more "little brother" than "Big Brother".
If only Senior Party Members and Thought Police were allowed to have them, then Orwellian fears would be justified, but
a. like mobile phones, when significant numbers of people are using those things, who could seriously be arsed (let alone able) to monitor all of them?
b. Surveillance is the domain of authoritarian types. "Sousveillance" scares the fuck out of them. Who watches the watchers? WE DO!
For these and other reasons... WANT!

According to the info coming out of Snowden, GCHQ is busting a gut to hoover up as much mobile phone traffic as it can. It will do the same with these glasses, if it can. The govt will be able to see what you are seeing....

Ian Tomlinson

if it can

Turn the networking off when you don't need it. Meanwhile we will be able to see what the govt and its various nefarious agents are doing, and it'll be on Youtube in 15 mins.

[Robert_S]

'Why don't you just point it at their eye directly?' 'What is this, 2007?'