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In any downtown area you are on camera 24/7. I think the expectations of privacy have changed. Google glasses released on mass now would not make similiar headlines.

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Go to a public area and visibly record people. Particularly while talking to them. You will annoy a lot of people and some will act with hostility (especially if you don't frame it as some sort of interview).

People don't like it when nobodies are filming them, even in very public spaces. For some reason they are ok with CCTV, despite that not being much different (I do recognize that cctv is typically recording a general area and isn't always HQ)

I think people don't mind being recorded but they want to know why. If the reason becomes because a big name company does it automatically we generally accept. For example people now accept amazon / google listening to background conversations in order to process commands.

'downtown areas' have been on camera for decades, certainly by the time google glass was released, so i don't think this is really a useful data point.

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