I always feel like somebody's watching me: The effect of wearable cameras

Those folks wearing BT headsets should be happy. They'll no longer be the geekiest looking geeks on the face of the earth. I can't wait to see people running into lamp posts and falling into fountains because they're paying more attention to some silly you tube video than where they're going.

Cameras document what happened and by nature they are neutral. They don't have 'selective memory', they don't tell their version of a story, they just document. I think it will make people more accountable for their actions thus making them 'hopefully' more responsible. The acquisition and sharking of information has already been taken out of the hands of the media and put into everyone's hands with the internet, Youtube, twitter and in general through social media. Wearable cameras are just the visual extension of that. People already take photos pretty much everywhere with their phones.

If everyone on demos wore cameras would save a lot of lies being endlessly repeated by the media. The police can't stop everyone filming them, and camera wearers would have to behave themselves too.

Interesting phenomenon - when surgeons document informed consent on video, patients have almost zero recall of what they were told

I can see these as a target for mugging so Darwin will kick in. It will be easy to steal a pair of $500 sunglasses. Wear these and get mugged or punched in the face for being a naive borg cog. I do not want to make Google any more money for being the worlds largest privacy infringer. People who own stock in Google would buy them to push up the stock. Let them have Google Glass parties so they can check out their FB pages to see what loosers they are in reality and in cyberspace.

To many people these will be perfect sleeping glasses.
Aliens and other intruders don't like cameras ;)

The camera aspect of glasses is not really new or more invasive than hidden cameras contained in tie pins and the like.

The greater potential for good and bad has to do with the screen not the camera. The enhanced reality and escapist applications come with attendant distractions. Talking with a person wearing these glasses can be insulting as they simultaneously check their Facebook msgs or Google you on the spot. Distracted driving, walking, etc may become exponentially more rude and dangerous than texting. Most of the apps will center on real time advertising - an obvious app is a "city lens" overlay of store names and specials that float into the user's vision at every turn.

"If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear." This is the motto at Google and now the American government. Privacy left the building some time ago. Social media outlets, camera phones, security cameras, satellites, monitoring of email, web surfing, bank transactions, phone conversations, TV shows watched and things beyond those have done away with any sense of privacy. Now Glasses technology will invade your homes, work place, bathrooms, etc. etc. You will not know if and when somebody with Glasses is recording you and posting it to the web. The end user maybe surprised to find someday Glasses recording their actions without their consent. While people are focused on drones invading their privacy outside their home, with Glasses they will lose it everywhere, in and outside their homes. Since Glasses technology and drones are coming, the question is not privacy but instead who watches over the watchers, and can you trust them with your privacy?

Albert Brooks thought of this concept many years ago in his movie "Real Life."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAooL_B_uP0

I bet Google Glasses will become very popular in the amateur porn world.

This isn't going to change anything except for social misfits. They will recognized from afar.

These are disgusting. and should be illegal. Goodby privacy.

I think that society has taken privacy too far.

Cameras everywhere would bring about a new order of accountability.

I'm hoping this technology will be pervasive enough to overcome our privacy issues.

Is there a Dame Edna version?

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Resistance is futile. We are Google.

The real danger is when law or insurance will force us to wear cameras.

The main effect is: If you thought there were a lot of pictures of breasts on the internet before...

I predict these glasses will be a flop.

1984.

well and now will spam the world poor quality photos of everything and without any deeper meaning or value by millions of people who will photograph and share stupidities all around them.. just they see it.. congrats google! try to focus on something more useful for humanity next time :)

Next, I'm hoping there will be a camera watch. Then I'll be able to do street photography while picking my nose.

Privacy? That's a non-issue. I'm more concerned about the ever-growing tsunami of complete and utter dross that we are expected to look at by those who think that just having a camera makes them a photographer.

After 6-12 months, these things will fall by the wayside, just like every fad does.

After reading all the possible uses of these glasses, it seems like a lot of hype for very little actual value. Lifelogging, helping fight crime, a spycam, proving to your spouse where you are -- what do any of these abilities have in a person's daily life?

It would be nice to have a camera that I can carry easily, but only if it were far higher quality than my camera phone. I don't see any killer app that's come out of the Google Glasses discussion so far. Just a lot of media hype that has more to do with Minority Report than a usable product.

Today's technology, tomorow's Made In China landfill junk.

Google glass is a spy cam like a lot of other cams for sport and adventure. If you use google glass you must accept personal rights - if not you cant get a lot of problems in a lot of countries because it is nearer than streetphotography and it concerns the personal behaviour.

I think a bill will come for public areas and in private areas it will not be allwed.

With Google Glass, you can now spend 24/7 looking at a computer screen, disconnected from "in real life".

Soon surgeons will implant the Glass into our eyelids where it will report every minute to the IRS and the cardiologist.

ego-trippin' at it's technologically finest.

No way am I going to tolerate someone in my presence with one of these obnoxious, intrusive apparat on their face. No way.