Re:Spyware app turns the privacy tables on Google Glass wearers
by Silhouette on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @06:05PM
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Why people are freaking about Glass, I just don't get.
Because there is a difference between a technology being relatively obscure, because a lot of people find it creepy and socially unacceptable, and the same kind of technology being more widely adopted by the general public because it's piggybacking on something else, apparently without any real privacy safeguards to prevent abuse whatever Google might have liked to happen, and in addition automatically uploading footage to the mothership with or without the knowledge of its owner in approximately real time.
As with much of the modern privacy debate, matters of scale, connectivity and the erosion of anonymity/obscurity make a much bigger difference in practice than traditional distinctions between public and private locations.
Because there is a difference between a technology being relatively obscure, because a lot of people find it creepy and socially unacceptable, and the same kind of technology being more widely adopted by the general public because it's piggybacking on something else, apparently without any real privacy safeguards to prevent abuse whatever Google might have liked to happen, and in addition automatically uploading footage to the mothership with or without the knowledge of its owner in approximately real time.
As with much of the modern privacy debate, matters of scale, connectivity and the erosion of anonymity/obscurity make a much bigger difference in practice than traditional distinctions between public and private locations.