Apparently, it's all open source[1] and available to be hacked away at[2][3], including cutting out calls back to Google.

1: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/04/google... 2: https://code.google.com/p/google-glass-kernel-source/ 3: https://developers.google.com/glass/tools-downloads/system

It's just a small Android strapped to the side of your head. Google 'AOSP'.

Thanks for the hint but I think that was obvious. My point is: the quote makes it seem easier than it is to do such thing and still be 100% confident and sure you will never ever have a confidentiality or privacy breach with patients data involved. Google Glass is fantastic but also very scary for a lot of people, I can't even imagine how that would turn out inside a hospital.

"still be 100% confident and sure you will never ever have a confidentiality or privacy breach with patients data involved"

That is never true, ever, in any circumstance, with any system, ever.

Stop wishing for unicorns and come back to the real world.

The question is, is it reasonably safe, and does it help patient outcomes? Keep in mind, the more likely it is to improve patient outcomes, the more risk is considered acceptable.

There's a certain niggling worry I have about googling "how to hide my data from google"

Presumably the thing is on a network without internet access. Boom, problem solved.

Glass without an Internet connection doesn't normally work, so they must have done quite a lot.

The normal and promoted programming model is quite similar to Chromecast, where you push a subset of html pages to it and it displays them. That push occurs via your system sending a message to Google's server that pushes the update on the Glass.

That all changed last fall[1]. They released an SDK, so now it's pretty much just like making an Android app.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/google-launches-glass...

It doesn't mean patient data can't be leaked to the world (or even to wrong people inside the place).