Is This the End of Anonymity? - Comments Page 1

Scary! But surely someone, somewhere, is working on a device to protect against the collecting of personal information in this way. A virtual aluminum wallet similar to the one that shields against stealing credit card info? I want the company name and stock symbol...

This is the main reason I left Facebook. The tagging possibility for a photo, combined with the possibility of any "friends" copying the picture to their profile, where friends' friends' friends' friends' friends (and God alone knows who they may be) can (mis)use the tagging and find out a great deal about you.
These glasses have the potential of destroying our privacy, unless the lawmakers get in first. Send a copy of your article to all democratic parliaments. Now is the time they have to act. Tomorrow may be too late!

Just wondering Bob, if the Glass will work on me with only one eye?

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Picture this: A beautiful young lady walking home down a city street minding her own business. A "passerby", lacking acceptable societal morals, decides she's too cute to ignore. He grabs her from behind and drags her into an alley. She fights her attacker as best she can but knows that she is not strong enough to hold him off. About the time he starts tearing at her clothes, blue lights flash and the attacker abandons his assault. Google Glass has not only notified the police, but it has sent along pictures of the "passerby" which will later be presented at his trial.

This is absolutely horrible. Is there no respect for a person's privacy anymore?

I would NOT respond. They may publish whatever they want about me on the 'Net; I simply and plainly do not care. In case anyone develops a (really) stupid idea of stalking me or attacking my home - okay, I got a full-automatic gun and the guts to use it. I know when and under what circumstances I am within my right to use it, - I will not hesitate to do so. I have, trust me: I am Russian and live in Russia.

Just what the government ordered!

Time to start wearing the Halloween mask full time - Clinton, Obama, Bush, Nixon come to mind.

But really, face recognition would require your image to have been previously captured and then have the distinguishing data attached - I think that's a mammoth task UNLESS the government databases that have captured this data are made publicly accessible (i.e. driver license or passport databases)

It's very interesting and I would like to try Glass for short holiday video, although I wear specs so unless they were prescription it would be of no use to me.

The invasion of privacy, or the ability to take that further, is a worrying possibilty though.

So now attempts will be to outlaw the new technology... instead of what's needed.... To get ahead of the curve by regulating it's use.

Instead usually we & our gov't wait until it's become intolerable to start talking about solutions. Maybe this time we'll do it in a timely way?

How to regulate is a huge complex question. Should be illegal & punishable by jail time, to post photos taken without permission in public space of a specific person (not a vague crowd picture), and attaching any indirectly obtained personal information.

Blackmail & extortion is illegal. Laws should be updated to make sure internet involved blackmail is included.

Your government(s) already know everything about you: from birth certificate to marriage licenses (notice the "s" there?), to employment records, to unemployment records, to tax filings, to tax evasions, to how you vote (or don't), to police and prison records, to your driver's license, to investments, mortgages, credit records, bank records, phone records... had enough? No one will ever know more about you than government. Who cares if Google knows what my favourite brand of underwear is?

Well, the ladies could start wearing niqabs (if I've got the correct term) and I can see false beards and mustaches plus our own pair of Google Glass (or imitation ones) becoming popular...

This is frightening ! You can be sure that even with legislation in place in an attempt to restrict these glasses to 'honorable'uses,the criminal element will use them for nefarious purposes no matter what the law. It may already be too late!

Just because we can doesn't mean we should. Al Gore's invention is taking on a new dimension. I think that on private property the owner is responsible for keeping Glass off the property. In public, photos are not illegal. It's how they are used after taking them that is an issue. In the case of Glass, identifying the subject of a photo by searching the Internet should be illegal. Glass should include technology that identifies the person doing the search and informs the subject of the search that they are being targeted. Google has taken on too much irresponsible development for the sake of making money.

EDITOR'S NOTE: You are joking about Al Gore inventing the Internet, right? (I hope...)

Its possible that it may have a counter affect. In other words when people become concerned that their information can be obtained so easily they will take steps to prevent it from happening. For instance facial recognition can be tricked by someone wearing sunshades and a hat. Instead of online photos of people they will post avatars of themself. Bottom line is to not panic. We are still in control...control....control,etc. LOL.

Hi Bob, I'm searching the internet for a Burka, and l.e.d. baseball caps.

How does Google glass work? Does it have a database against which on-street observations can be compared? Where does it get the data? As long as one keeps his data off any such database, isn't he protected against this intrusion?

None of my information is available on line. I saw this coming many years ago and I have no credit bureau file and my address and all my phone numbers are nonpublished. My webmail provider doesn't even know my name. How then would Glass be able to disclose anything?

There is a good side to this. Google Glass's intrusiveness is so obnoxious it is going to piss many people off. Many years ago people thought I was nuts when I refused to give out my social security number. Now they don't. Glass may be the last straw before a major reaction sets in. All we'd need is for some cute gal to be stalked (or worse) just for walking down the street. If it makes headlines I suspect some legislators will get aboard the Grandstand Express.

How would you suggest one protect oneself?

Maybe we'll all be wearing veils at some point in the future - at least until there is technology that penetrates veils.

Now every local police department will be ordering these! Yes, Big Brother is watching you!!

WOWWEE Pretty scary!!!! But also has a very cool factor to it. This technology is already here, so I guess the one main thing we all must do is to clean up our online presence & avoid giving out too much personal information whenever possible.
The regulation of this technology will be even trickier.