{"id":656243,"date":"2013-05-06T11:12:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=228429"},"modified":"2013-05-06T11:12:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:12:53","slug":"people-scared-of-google-glass-call-on-white-house-to-ban-the-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656243","title":{"rendered":"People Scared Of Google Glass Call On White House To Ban The Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Glass<\/a> has some people spooked. They think that Glass turns everybody into a surveillance cyborg that constantly violates their privacy. Fittingly, a group called Stop the Cyborgs<\/a> has been outspoken on the privacy implications of Glass, but now some are calling for a blanket ban. <\/p>\n

In a We The People petition<\/a> submitted on Friday, a man from Seattle, Washington is requesting that the government “Ban Google Glass from use in the USA until clear limitations are placed to prevent indecent public surveillance.” As the title suggets, the three people who have signed it thus far are scared of the privacy implications: <\/p>\n

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Google Glass is a new twist on technology which hasn’t had clearly stated limits on the locations in US communities where it can and cannot be used. In order to protect our communities we need limitations to prevent indecent public surveillance of our friends, children, and families.<\/p>\n

It is hard to prevent it because the hardware gives no notification that it is recording an individual at any given time.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I think most can agree that hardware like Glass shouldn’t be allowed in certain places. It’s totally reasonable to ban its use at bars, strip clubs<\/a> and other places that respect client confidentiality. That being said, the last sentence is totally false as Glass does notify people that it’s recording. The only thing is that it those notifications can be turned off <\/a>if the hardware is rooted, but doing so will be beyond the capabilities of the average user when it launches sometime in the next year. <\/a><\/p>\n

Besides, most people won’t be indiscriminately monitoring you with Google Glass. They’ll be too busy taking selfies in the shower. <\/a><\/p>\n

[h\/t: TechDirt<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Google Glass has some people spooked. They think that Glass turns everybody into a surveillance cyborg that constantly violates their privacy. Fittingly, a group called Stop the Cyborgs has been outspoken on the privacy implications of Glass, but now some are calling for a blanket ban. In a We The People petition submitted on Friday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}