Re:Spyware app turns the privacy tables on Google Glass wearers
by DannyBee on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @03:57AM
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1. I don't see how you participate much more easily without your knowledge. Phones are everywhere, record video, audio, etc. You think because it's not pointed at you on someone's face you aren't participating?
2. You don't think retail stores are already doing this anyway with their security cameras?
Google search for "Retail store video analytics".
(http://blog.nrf.com/2013/06/13/how-retailers-can-drive-perfo... for example, has some real life examples of what various stores are doing)
They don't make any pretense that it's for training purposes.
I guess i'm here to break it to you that you are already participating without your knowledge, everywhere, glass or not.
The only difference is that glass gives you some inkling it is happening.
I'm not at all interested in Glass, but this issue has caused me to think about how I'll react and interact with a Glass user. I never had to think about that with phones or cameras.
And by the way, this conversation has me thinking about those unfortunate retail workers who have to wear those earbud/microphones, so that they can be re-purposed at a moment's notice. If they wore Glass there would be a backlash.
But it wouldn't be obvious at all if their mics were recording you, and you could easily be simultaneously video recorded by "security" cams in the store. With enough AI and FR, the cameras could automatically focus on whoever the employee was talking to, or even record ambient conversations and connect that to travel so far within the store. "For training purposes."