[MisterBastahrd]

Worse... being in a social situation with someone who is wearing Glass now means that Google has identified who you are (and the NSA for that matter) and where you are, and from there it probably isn't that difficult to determine what your mood is at the time. It'll be like your own digital stalker out there, times a thousand, given that Google will just use the data to sell ads.

[abraham]

> being in a social situation with someone who is wearing Glass now means that Google has identified who you are (and the NSA for that matter) and where you are

What? Glass is not always recording, has no facial recognition and is no more invasive than the smartphones everyone already carries.

[MisterBastahrd]

Yes, because obviously the originally stated intention for the device is the only use the device will ever have. The difference here is that a phone is usually in your pocket. The Glass is usually on your head, and the camera is pointed at the same thing you're currently looking at.

[abraham]

I can 100% guarantee the current hardware iteration will never support always on recording. It would kill the battery in 45-60 minutes. That added to the fact that almost everyone has a phone on them that can already be geolocated makes using Glass unnecessary for tracking. You could argue that Glass would be useful in taking a photo snapshot every minute but with the growth of security cameras it's estimated that in some areas people are caught on camera as many as 300 times/day. That makes Glass not all that useful.

[jfoster]

But it doesn't now, and there is no indication that it ever will aside from people not involved with the product inventing hypotheses. Fair enough if you want to express concern about the trajectory that you envisage, but in your original post you're simply saying it does something that it doesn't.