Skeptics Sound the Alarm Over Google Glass
Advertising and Internet search giant Google is set to roll out the much-hyped Google Glass. If you haven’t heard about Google Glass yet, you will.
The futuristic frames will allow the wearer to, among other things, record your image and your conversations without your permission. Sure, anyone can surreptitiously record or videotape you by using their smart phones, but Google Glass puts this technology literally in your face.
Conspiracy theorists and alarmists are already comparing Google Glass to the ultra spy technology that George Orwell foretold in his classic book 1984 (published in 1949).
The Google Glass wearer can videotape you and, in the blink of an eye, upload the footage to Instagram or Facebook.
Maybe it’s the fear of losing the last remaining vestiges of privacy we have left that’s spurring intense public opposition to the ‘Glass’.
Some business owners have already posted signs banning the ‘Glass’ from their establishments before the digital frames have even hit retail stores.
“They argue, rightly, that this is more than just a question of privacy,” writes Telegraph.UK, a British newspaper.
“You can see the marketing already – Glass is all-knowing. The issue is that to be all-knowing, it needs you to help it be all-seeing. If choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without, then Google Glass goes to the heart of what it is to live in a digital world and what it is to exercise choice about your privacy.”
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If I see someone with these crazy arse glasses looking at me, I am going to get up and slap the mess out of them!
Everything about these glasses are so wrong!
DoNotDeleteMe says:
If I see someone with these crazy arse glasses looking at me, I am going to get up and slap the mess out of them!
Everything about these glasses are so wrong!
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Now that we know what they look like, is it going to change what we say, and do.
Nothing good will come to this, just watch. smh.
Not a good idea or look
Besides the glasses probably gone be about $1000.00 a pop ain’t nobody got the TIME or MONEY for dat
GA
What kinda fukk shyt is this?
yea this wouldnt be a good idea. they dont even look stealthy enough to even look like something a person would even wear and still look nice. they’re probably going to cost a whole limb anyway.
Why dude on the subway to the far left looking like “DONT TAKE no pic of me with this big azz yt ghul”
@ Hissy
KDub you know that’s his woman
George Orwell foretold in his classic book 1984
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I loved this book
I don’t think this will come out because of the violation of ppl’s privacy
Someone will get sued off of this mess
Not every idea is meant to come to reality folks..
*runs in the room to
Bad*
KDub you know that’s his woman
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Oh I KNOW…and you do too. And she does at night when he
But he dont want nooooooobody else to know
Who Dat says:
Why dude on the subway to the far left looking like “DONT TAKE no pic of me with this big azz yt ghul”
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*whispers* I hatechu…you had me scrolling up to look at Shallow Hal’s girlfriend
I think some crime is gonna happen…and somebody is just going to so HAPPEN to have these shats on…and BAM they will be accepted. Watch.
Not with it
Dub… she shoooole be footin’ his bills too
I said this was a dumb ass idea a long time ago and now that it has come to fruition I still think its DUMB. I mean really what more can we create to be dependent, socially awkward and the like. The human race doesnt need help in aiding ourselves into dumbdom
Was it the movie Wall-e when the fat people was in space and they couldn’t get around unless they were on this hoveround? She look like she could be one of them.
Who Dat says:
I think some crime is gonna happen…and somebody is just going to so HAPPEN to have these shats on…and BAM they will be accepted. Watch.
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Yep.
MissHarlem says:
I said this was a dumb ass idea a long time ago and now that it has come to fruition I still think its DUMB. I mean really what more can we create to be dependent, socially awkward and the like. The human race doesnt need help in aiding ourselves into dumbdom
some technology is good, but I find myself dependent on somethings that I shouldn’t be sometimes and that scares me 
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We’re going to be like the people I mentioned in #24
@gagirl yea look me up on twitter
*whispers* I hatechu…you had me scrolling up to look at Shallow Hal’s girlfriend
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Wit cell phones cams and street cams every where, exactly what is the problem?
Then agane…this ish might NOT work…these glasses…cause the blacks? We be KNOWING when the camera is looking at us. ESP when we doing some shat we dont want nobody to know.
Case in point…??? That nukka up there hiding behind his collar cause he is with yt Rasputia.
THERE
YOU
GO
RAZZLE I always felt that way with tech since I had a damn word processor
I purposely dont have some features so I wont be dependent. Like autocorrect or autospell or autowhatthefckever. I took pride in my spelling when I was young. Paper?!! Chiiittt I had to go to the library and look that chit up with the damn index card. These mofos got it TOOOOOOOO easy.
Divaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Chile …….
That book and move 1984 was no lie…It’s just a shame that a person’s privacy is taken so lightly nowadays…”It’s the norm” to be spied upon and have your images uploaded anywhere…Desensitization at its finest I tell ya…
DIIVVVAAAAAAAA
that damn funeral had me 
like a damn baby. I didnt even get to watch last night bc it watched me 
@Kabe is my font white to you nucca?
And “by accident” dropped it in her yard…cutting through on MY way home. That bish somewhere still wanting to fight me. Natasha Greene if you reading this… I am truly sorry hoe
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KDUB I really want you to log off if you ain’t gone already
I really be tryin to just sit back read and laugh… 
Hey Yall have a good afternoon and evening
Dimpz if you are here
Bye
MissHarlem says:
DIIVVVAAAAAAAA that damn funeral had me like a damn baby. I didnt even get to watch last night bc it watched me
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Guhl wasn’t it a tear jerker? I dvr’d last nights episode! I gone miss JR Ewing!!!!!!
“You can see the marketing already – Glass is all-knowing. The issue is that to be all-knowing, it needs you to help it be all-seeing. If choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without, then Google Glass goes to the heart of what it is to live in a digital world and what it is to exercise choice about your privacy.”
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This shyt says so much…indirectly
I dont like that privacy is something that people dont even blink an eye at. I hate that people are so attention hungry that they whore themselves out and in return big brother is every damn where bc people so fckn thirsty to be liked or tagged or followed. SMH
Gigi26 says:
I don’t think this will come out because of the violation of ppl’s privacy
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Read the Patriot Act hun we’ve been violated several times over
Harlem- They depend on so much tech in the government because they’re trying to move away from paper… I tell you I wish I had some graphing paper and a typewriter (because sometimes my penmanship sucks when rushing) because excell and all of the formulas are too much. I know how to use the basics and such… I cant even tell you all the mathematicall probabilities they ask for smh
Mathematical*
Cue the go to phrase they always use to chip away at our rights:
“If you aren’t doing anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about.”
And one more thing if you walking by me with them chits on I have a right to karate chop the chit out of your throat bc you invading my privacy thinking you gonna be in the next Mission Impossible.
But there is no privacy in public. Never has been.
MissHarlem says:
I dont like that privacy is something that people dont even blink an eye at. I hate that people are so attention hungry that they whore themselves out and in return big brother is every damn where bc people so fckn thirsty to be liked or tagged or followed. SMH
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My friends and fam be mad at me. I have to approve pics and posts on fb before they can tag me in it. It be days later…….
To this DAY my mama STILL asks me if it was me who put that Slam Book in the Greene’s yard like that. 23 years later. KID yall NOT.
MamaDub: I KNOW you did it. You were the only other lil black girl on our side of the street. You can tell me! Its been a LONG time…come on..tell me
I don’t know what you talking about ma. Me and Tasha were FRIENDS; why would I DO SUCHA THING? *snicker*
Me
My friends and fam be mad at me. I have to approve pics and posts on fb before they can tag me in it. It be days later…….
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and? they’re mad cause what?? tell em to have several.
@diva hey boooo, you alrerady know how to find me if you need me, you got the bat symbol over there lol
Bedazzled His Razzle says:
My friends and fam be mad at me. I have to approve pics and posts on fb before they can tag me in it. It be days later…….
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and? they’re mad cause what?? tell em to have several.
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Be like…you thinks you speshul. Nawl, I just may not want people to know I had a burger at Fridays at 12pm on Thursday with yo arse and your sister and best friend when I told my boss I had a flat tire and couldn’t get to work that day.
RAZZ chit is beyond ridic but all people see is ohhh the new tech we dont have to do xyz but that comes at a cost dummies
It may have never been privacy in public with sattelites and such but GOAT there is no denying that with this unneccessary need we have made it easier to be spied on.
GAGIRL87 says:
Besides the glasses probably gone be about $1000.00 a pop ain’t nobody got the TIME or MONEY for dat
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they will sell like hotcakes to the idiots who wait in line to buy Jordan’s shoes that they only wear once.
Who Dat says:
Then agane…this ish might NOT work…these glasses…cause the blacks? We be KNOWING when the camera is looking at us.
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I can see people getting punched out for just looking at someone with these glasses.
Looking at the pics from Jonylah Watkins funeral. So sad.
MzTisch says:
Bedazzled His Razzle says:
My friends and fam be mad at me. I have to approve pics and posts on fb before they can tag me in it. It be days later…….
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and? they’re mad cause what?? tell em to have several.
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Be like…you thinks you speshul. Nawl, I just may not want people to know I had a burger at Fridays at 12pm on Thursday with yo arse and your sister and best friend when I told my boss I had a flat tire and couldn’t get to work that day.
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Sound like something dude from Black Ink did
these glasses are gonna have yall cross eyed like deebo, do your history go back and watch ” the jerk”
I am digging those google shoes
#yallcare
Im not in an uproar about it…. maybe b/c I’m a tech geek freak. Privacy Smivacy. Old age technology has already minimized that so ehh… #iswhatitis
PRETTY scary #fail