Google Glass: is it a threat to our privacy? | Technology | The Guardian - 1 views
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glasses that can shoot video, take pictures, and broadcast what you're seeing to the world
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They weren't due to get them until last Friday
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Google Glass is the most hotly anticipated new arrival in "wearable computing"
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from "mainframe" computers
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Google's idea is that you need only speak to operate it
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"OK, Glass, take video!"
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The only other way to get that point of view is to strap a camera to your head.
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And yet people are already beginning to fret about the social implications of Glass
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the question of privacy
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how will we behave in groups
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David Yee, the chief technology officer at a company called Editorially
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Yee's worry was that the young person might be filming everything
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Joshua Topolsky
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have tried out Google Glass
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This is the company that has repeatedly breached the boundaries of what we think is "private".
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forgetting that sometimes deadly enemies have mutual friends
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use of personal data without an individual's clear consent.
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So how comfortable – or uneasy – should we feel about the possibility that what we're doing in a public or semi-public place (or even somewhere private) might get slurped up and assimilated by Google?
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Oliver Stokes
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ou could inadvertently become part of somebody else's data collection – that could be quite alarming
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Now it's going to be able to compute what it is you're looking at.
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Song Chaoming
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nalysing mobile phone records
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how your smartphone is able to show where you are on an onscreen map
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Social media
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Where the five million are the wearers of Glass – and the one monitor is Google
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Google probably knows what you're going to do before you do.
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Twitter
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we're more used to the snatched photo or video that tells a story
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Google doesn't want to discuss these issues.
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this is a live issue,
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One of the reasons they're doing Explorers is to get feedback on these things
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how will we behave with each other?
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hows data such as your speed, altitude, and even ski-resort maps
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Concentrating on what was in front of me wasn't hard
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they do it without letting others realise you are doing anything
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we get too deeply involved with our technology
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she pointed out how smartphones change us:
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Topolsky
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It brought something new into view
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the more I used Glass the more it made sense to me; the more I wanted it."
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how text messages or phone calls would just appear as alerts
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Glass makes you feel more powerful
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Hurst
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is likely to be annoying
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here's where the problems really start – you don't know if they're taking a video of you.
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body language change
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model seems to require voice control
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how much are we going to share with others