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Very nice, just keep Glass in the privacy of your home away from the non-consenting public. Thanks.

I totally agree, as a cypherpunk and an EFF/FSF donor (notice the GNU in the end of the video, I bought that from RMS at an auction for a few hundred bucks) I'm bothered by the possible privacy intrusions from glass. At the same time we are trying to highlight the good that can come from glass (see our VizWiz project which is an iPhone/MTurk/CV mashup to help blind users find objects https://www.cs.umd.edu/~bwhite/extra/papers/UIST10-jbigham.p...). One area we are researching is how to protect bystander's privacy without requiring them to "opt-in" so that they can "opt-out" (like Germany does with street view).

We're already working on the next demo, but the one after that (let's say 2 weeks) I'll try to show what we can do in terms of protecting the public's privacy (incidental bystanders). Thanks for mentioning this.

A tricky wicket indeed. I feel the more devices are always-on, the more the devices uploading data on their own accord the more privacy by default should be given to others. It is really no longer an issue of wondering if someone is going to post an image to Facebook from a device, but if the device is going to publishing "metadata" on it's own.

Devices like Glass seem to be the threshold where this always on activity becomes most apparent as a potential problem. No doubt we'll be seeing more in the future, Motorola's recent always-on-ness hardware for example.

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