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What Happens When You Walk Into a Bar Wearing Google Glasses

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Remarks here revolve around paranoid fantasies. But I don't think the bartender was concerned with privacy at all. His remarks were confined to how it looked. People want to look cool in a bar, and they were uncool and didn't appear to care.

I'm thinking hes just a Luddite, not typical of other bar patrons and not particularly technical - hes a bartender after all. So a bartenders opinion is maybe not something worth stewing over.

I'd be far more interested in the perception of other bar patrons. All we got was "a couple were jealous". Ok, that's more like it, an SF bar and a couple walk in with Google glasses, I can understand that reaction.

"they were sitting there like it was TOTALLY OK"

Why wouldn't it be ok? Why do they care what people wear or use?

It wasn't so bad when things weren't digital, but now I am feeling more and more paranoid. I really don't want my image somewhere where someone can do face recognition or simply tag me without my explicit permission.

I already feel bad when someone uploads a photo to Facebook and tags me.

If you don't want your image stored anywhere, you need to stop emitting photons so promiscuously. It's inevitable that all public information in the world will eventually be stored, indexed and made available. If not by Google Glasses, then by some other technology, which may be completely undetectable.

Of course, we can make laws to leave some private areas in the world. In fact I believe such laws already exist. But in public places, people have been taking photographs for quite a while.

>It's inevitable that all public information in the world will eventually be stored, indexed and made available.

[citation needed]

Photos used to be analog and not so easily transmitable. Even with digital cameras, not every photo gets uploaded.

This whole, lets film everything and store it concept is an entirely new thing. You can't get away from it. Someone just looks at you and you've been recorded. At the moment I can at least try and avoid appearing in pictures.

The fact that there could be spy cameras around also does not absolve you from filming me. Just because I don't know about some speculative super secret tech that may or may not exist does give you or anyone else any rights over me.

So far I am not entirely opposed to Google Glasses though. But I'm hoping that they turn out to be more than just an expensive camera.

I never thought people would stick bluetooth headsets on their ear and walk around either. If the utility provided by GG (or other product) is high enough, it will get over the 'un-cool hump' and become common.

When things like google glasses becomes completely pervasive I will walk around wearing masks with designs and a hat to make my face difficult/impossible to recognize for both humans and machines.

Then you'll be 'the guy with the odd mask' and easily recognized unless there are a lot of people doing the same thing.

cf. aguments for using encryption for everyday communication.

Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1105/

>xkcd >relevant

lol no

Bartender: "So, did you hear the one about the guy who walked into a bar wearing Google glasses?"

Guy wearing Google glasses: stares at ceiling, fingers frames for a while; "Yes."

How strong an infrared light would I need to ruin every picture and how close would it need to be mounted to my face?

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