[jspark]

Google Glass will make recording others openly acceptable. Spy cameras and earpieces don't exist with the intention of ubiquitous use while Glass does.

Can you imagine everyone you know who wears glasses now using a camera at all times?

[Silhouette]

Google Glass will make recording others openly acceptable.

Or it will result in a literally violent backlash against constant privacy invasion.

Or hopefully something in between, like the village who just ran the Google Street View car out of town when they heard it was coming (though it was disappointing to hear that Google later went back and got the footage anyway).

Mass surveillance is not OK, and is a Pandora's box situation where once the data is out there, realistically it's never getting deleted again. Privacy has evolved as a valued concept in just about every civilised society for good reasons. It's just a shame that a generation of Facebook addicts are too busy getting their hit to notice all the negative consequences to the kind of culture they're inviting.

[hfsktr]

Wouldn't it only be the people who want to use a camera? Unless you are suggesting that all glasses in the future will have video/audio technologies?

I don't think much of Glass. Just doesn't appeal to me but I am curious about what makes it special for others.

[GHFigs]

Many people are interested in Glass as a heads-up display or wearable computer, not as a camera. "Many" may end up being a very small number, but it stands to reason that it's larger than the number of people that actively desire to record strangers.

Unfortunately, the current model requires both a microphone (to hear you) and a camera (to see gestures), so even well-intentioned users will still be brandishing recording devices in ways that make others uncomfortable.