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'I was attacked for wearing Google Glass' | theage.com.au

'I was attacked for wearing Google Glass' | theage.com.au

Google logs all of your searches, analyzes them, and uses them to individually personalise the search results you see - which has pretty profound implications for both literacy and privacy.

"A man who went to a cinema in the US wearing Google Glass was interrogated by FBI agents for an hour because employees thought that he was illegally recording the movie (his Glass was off). Even if you don't have a lot of context for FBI interrogations that still sounds like a really scary hour."

"If you're looking for the beating heart of the digital age - a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest-you could do a lot worse than Lenoir, North Carolina. This rural city of 18,000 was once rife with furniture factories. Now it's the home of a Google data center."

"Find out how Google detected illegal activity on their systems and how they responded to the discovery."

"On this week's episode of The Simpsons, "Specs and the City", Mr Burns gives every employee of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant a pair of "Oogle Goggles". It seems like an unusually generous and savvy gift, but really Mr Burns just wants to use the devices to spy on his employees. You see where this is going. "

"Keys hiding in couch cushions. Wayward wallets causing panic. It's estimated that each of us will spend six months of our lives looking for things we've lost. San Diego startup XY wants to make locating lost items as easy as Googling for directions. "