Privacy 'impossible' with Google Glass warn campaigners

[The Enigma]

Privacy 'impossible' with Google Glass warn campaigners

Google Glass and other augmented reality gadgets risk creating a world in which privacy is impossible, warn campaigners.
The warning comes from a group called "Stop the Cyborgs" that wants limits put on when headsets can be used.
It has produced posters so premises can warn wearers that the glasses are banned or recording is not permitted.


Widespread use of Google Glass could stifle freedom in civil society, campaigners warn

The campaign comes as politicians, lawyers and bloggers debate how the gadgets will change civil society.
"We are not calling for a total ban," one of the campaign workers called Jack
told the BBC in a message sent via anonymised email service Hushmail.
"Rather we want people to actively set social and physical bounds around
the use of technologies and not just fatalistically accept the direction
technology is heading in," he wrote.
Based in London, the Stop The Cyborgs campaign began at the end of
February, he said, and the group did not expect much to happen before the
launch of Google Glass in 2014.

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[Oberon]

Privacy is slowly becoming extinct anyway, I think that this is something that people are just going to have to get used to. There will be minorities who will shy away from such technology, just as there are those who shy away from things like Steam, Facebook and Twitter, but they will be just that, minorities.

[Betonov]

I live in a village where everyone knoes everyone and old ladies go to church every sunday to discus matters of no relate to them.

You'll have to explain to me real slow what is this thing called ''privacy''

[the_tyrant]

Augmented reality POV porn! Hell yeah!

Google knowing my fetish and tailoring their ads to target it? Not as cool.