Creepier By The Minute: Google Glass Will Identify People By Clothing Choices

Who's working on technology like this, and why? And why isn't it self-evidently bad to the people working on it?<p>I think a code of professional ethics around software engineering is long past due. Journalists started doing this in the 20s[1] after a series of events, including the Spanish-American war, made the awful potential of ethical lapses in journalism obvious to everyone.[2]<p>We can't continue to maintain the reflexive belief that technology is neutral and is only dangerous depending on how it's used. At some point people have to be willing to refuse to work on certain things because of the obvious social implications those things would have.<p>I don't know how anybody could be working on things like lethal drones, facial recognition, locked bootloaders, deep packet inspection, or other freedom-reducing technology without considering the consequences of their work.<p>And I recognize that not everybody thinks the technologies I mentioned above are categorically wrong, but it'd be cool to start a conversation to draw lines about what <i>is</i>.<p>1. <a href="http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp</a> 2. Spare me, I know the profession isn't perfect and ethical lapses still abound, but at least we have some way of knowing when an ethical standard has been broken.

I don't think this is creepy at all - in fact, this is how human vision works. Besides, the fact that the article's on a website called "Macgasm" doesn't lend much credence to the opinions expressed in it.

This is how people react to being recorded <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDumyGJdLrU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDumyGJdLrU</a><p>Good luck Google!

I understand the sentiment, but not really the direction of it. Why is Google Glass special here? We spend most of our public lives on CCTV already (seriously, we really do). Why is it more upsetting that normal people have access to this now instead of restaurants and stores and workplaces and public venues and...<p>I'm not saying there's no privacy issue here. I'm saying this ship has sailed. Why pick on Google and not your local convenience store?

"dug up by <i>New Scientist</i>"<p>I'm sorry, is this the same New Scientist that suggested (arguably hyped) a piece of technology that has no hope of working in the real world as a plausible replacement for other modes of transportation? OK, just thought I'd clear that up. Thanks for playing... next.<p>Note, for context: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive#New_Scientist_article" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmDrive#New_Scientist_article</a><p>This is no different than Google's "Try these too" feature when browsing for images.<p>When you're digging into NS for panic fodder, you know you're desperate. You know what else is creepy, follows us around, but we all take for granted? Voice recognition.

Maybe in the future there will be communities set up in secluded locations where stuff like this is banned.<p>I'd love to live in a small town where everything from mobile phones onwards had to be left at the gate.<p>Of course you then have all the usual monocultural problems with gated communities.<p>Like people have said, we're already all watched by CCTV anyway, especially here, so if I really cared I'd be looking for that community already.

As an expat living in France I just discovered this thing called "droit d'image." I wonder how Google is going to reconcile their glasses with people's right to privacy (or right to not be recognizably recorded) in public. It's one thing to drive a few hundred Map cars around and scrub the images. It will be something else when thousands of these are deployed and everyone on the other side of the glass will need to have consent.

I feel like Google is losing a PR war around Glass, almost as badly as Adobe lost its around Flash.<p>Glass will probably be adopted among adventure sports enthusiasts and niches of skilled laborers, but if they want to see them become accepted in everyday life, they need to do a better job assuaging people's concerns around privacy, fashionability, and information addiction.

macgasm.net, huh? They'll think it's creepy until Apple comes out with the iGlasses five years later, and then it'll be revolutionary.