Hello: I suppose there are a lot of people thinking already on the privacy issues. I like to think of it in another way. I think it'd be also worth noting that google glass is just one more step in the paradox of making everything more close to the user, so it might be regarded by users as more private, but it's even more connected to google cloud services.
Glass augments physical privacy! Current mobile phones have huge screens, people around you can easily see what you're doing. With glass this changes: you have a very small screen close to your eye, and only you will be able to see what's being displayed on it. I didn't try google glass, but I already got confirmation about this two months ago in stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16035599/can-people-near-you-see-what-youre-seeing-and-hear-what-you-are-hearing-in-goog People will love glass because in the western world we love being detached and isolated from the physical world. Everyone is with their mobile phones when I take the subway, on the bus stop, etc. We love our mobile phones because we are dependent on it. I think this is one of the reasons google glass or in general augmented reality, when it catches up (it might take more than a decade, like it happened with tablets), people will love even more their glasses. Will it become impolite to use google glass as it might be impolite to use a mobile phone when you're with someone else? No doubt problems willl happen, but as adoption grows, it will be normalized and people will adapt to the new situation. If (note the conditional) adoption grows enough, everyone will be using glass so it'll become normal and ok to use glass in situation where currently it's rude or impolite. Also the apps will adapt to be non-intrusive enough, something that google has been stressing from the begining to developers. And yes, all of us will become permanent spies of google+US government. But this is already happening with mobile phones, and no-one is complaining. Right now they can hear everything you hear with your mobile phone, they can snoop all your conversations, know where you are. Google glass will allow to let them see what you see, but that's just one more step in my opinion, when taking the whole picture into account. Regards, On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Yosem Companys <compa...@stanford.edu> wrote: > From: Bruno Fortugno <brunofortu...@sympatico.ca> > > I am a student writing a paper on the potential privacy issues caused by > Google's upcoming product Google Glass. I was wondering if anyone could > advise some good resources for my research. > > Thanks, > > Bruno Fortugno > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Eduardo -- Eduardo Robles Elvira +34 668 824 393 skype: edulix2 http://www.wadobo.com it's not magic, it's wadobo! -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
