I've seen several comments around the web from privacy advocates along the lines of "I'll punch anyone I see wearing glass" or "I'll rip it right off your face" etc.
Have there been any reports of this happening yet?
Have there been any reports of this happening yet?
Not Google Glass, but similar.
What's true though is that we're taking a very dangerous road here:
1. Google Glass means total and permanent surveillance
2. Total and permanent surveillance means people will be afraid to use their right to freedom of expression (out of fear of blowback)
3. Suppressed freedom of expression means: Democracy is dead and a police state becomes very realistic.
Who in their right mind wants that?
Hiding opinions you disagree with is not what the downvote arrow should be used for.
Spend a week in one of the Anarchist newsgroups on Usenet during the early 90s to see how far that usually goes. ;)
Edit: Bonus - you'll understand why Fight Club was so popular.
The guy next to him laughed and said "Brilliant, then he can kick your ass, film it, and put it all over YouTube".
When it comes out, I'm going to buy one, and I'm going to wear it everywhere. I'm willing to bet that no one says anything, and that those that think about doing so won't. People say whatever they want on the Internet, or around friends at the pub, but in the real world they won't bat an eyelid.
A. those who actually find this to be a novel problem unique to Glass, and
B. people who have assumed that since inconspicuous recording of others has always been possible by, say, someone wearing a wire, it was a factor that is unable to be discounted from one's daily activities, and thus it was best to just act as if it were always the case unless one has taken specific steps to guarantee one won't be being recorded. (People with the security mindset, in other words.)
The latter group don't seem to have any problem with Glass: they already had their freak-out long ago when inconspicuously recording others around you became possible. Making it easier doesn't change anything for them; it just gives the power to record others around you to people who don't really have a strong motive to use it. The real "attackers" (in the cryptographic sense) never needed it to be easy; they had the motivation and the resources to use the clunky old methods.
It's interesting that the most recent presidential election in the US was influenced by a video recording of one of the candidates taken without their knowledge (the 47% comment by Romney). I think it's safe to say that this happened in 2012 because video recording devices are more common and smaller and that google glass and similar devices will only increase that trend. It's kind of like how the Nixon Kennedy debate being aired on TV changed american politics forever. And how "video killed the radio star."