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Seattle Restaurant Ejects Customer Wearing Google Glass

Cardinal said:
Not enough to matter. If I wanted to look like I was just reading my phone while recording someone I could do it, no problem.
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Good luck without a directional mic. Next.
 
Mason66 said:
I consciously choose not to have a Facebook page or upload my life to Google and I do not want some random person violating my choices.

How can anybody be OK with a random person recording every step you take without your knowledge?

You do know the ugliest pictures you can take of a person is when they are eating, right?

Why didn't the guy just take off the glasses and continue to eat.

Some peoples priorities are screwed up.
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Maybe he was there for a reason yet unknown, or maybe he already got what he came for.
 
Peter Grimm said:
Speak for yourself, I'm young and I think the owner was well within his rights to ask the customer to remove the google glass.

YouStar is right about one thing though, we're headed in that direction. Google Glass isn't just a trend, it's gonna get smaller, slicker, and everyone will have something like it.

And in another decade or so, they'll make contact lenses that do the same thing. People won't even know you have them on.
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Personally, I hope I'm dead long before this ever comes to pass. However, if it comes sooner than later, this is one area where I believe government has a role to intercede. Just as it is illegal to surreptitiously video up the skirts of young ladies using a camera hidden in your shoe, it should and will be illegal to surreptitiously video someone naked in a gym lockerroom or at a urinal or pool changeroom, etc. with hidden cameras in glasses, contact lenses, whatever. If the products aren't deemed illegal, then use of them in certain situations will be deemed illegal.
 
Perhaps Google glass should have small red lights on their side that upon lit would communicate to the rest that they are now being recorded. Otherwise for all it is worth this person may not be recording what he is seeing at all. He could be playing something there instead.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Personally, I hope I'm dead long before this ever comes to pass. However, if it comes sooner than later, this is one area where I believe government has a role to intercede. Just as it is illegal to surreptitiously video up the skirts of young ladies using a camera hidden in your shoe, it should and will be illegal to surreptitiously video someone naked in a gym lockerroom or at a urinal or pool changeroom, etc. with hidden cameras in glasses, contact lenses, whatever. If the products aren't deemed illegal, then use of them in certain situations will be deemed illegal.
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Either this, or we need to evolve as a culture to become more comfortable in our skin. I would already recommend to anyone living in this day and age not to do anything in private that they wouldn't want the whole world to find out about because there is no certainty of privacy anymore.

Likewise, maybe we need to question why certain things embarrass us. Why, for instance, does it matter if someone sees you naked? We all have the same bits and pieces anyway.

It will be interesting to see how society adapts and how people change their thinking to cope with the new reality that you really can't have too many secrets anymore.
 
shrubnose said:
If there were not signs at the entrance warning potential patrons of the restaurant's rules, I believe that the restaurant stepped over the line.

Informing people of rules like this and enforcing them after the people are already in your place spending money is wrong.
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Maybe they'll post them now.
 
zgoldsmith23 said:
I don't get it, but it's his business and, if he wants to lose potential customers, he can run it as he sees fit. Not sure why this is *Breaking News* or why this is even news...
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Because no one knows how to use the breaking news section anymore.
 
shrubnose said:
If there were not signs at the entrance warning potential patrons of the restaurant's rules, I believe that the restaurant stepped over the line.

Informing people of rules like this and enforcing them after the people are already in your place spending money is wrong.
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True! there should be a warning. That would be better for the owner and for the customer.
 
Sherman123 said:
Is your cellphone a toy? Maybe to you. Not to most of us and we'd be more than miffed if a restaurant told us to leave it at home. This is obviously a generational gap.
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Well, I don't aim my camera around if I use my droid at the table. I think the camera is the rub.
 
A person has a right to not have someone following with a camera and voice recording continuously. There are restaurants that do not allow you to take pictures. It is illegal to record some one with audio without their permission. Throw the person out!
 
joko104 said:
A person has a right to not have someone following with a camera and voice recording continuously. There are restaurants that do not allow you to take pictures. It is illegal to record some one with audio without their permission. Throw the person out!
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Then why did you like Your Star's post?

Can't make up your mind, or do you go both ways?
 
SMTA said:
Not when protecting the customers' privacy.
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You don't have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" while out in public. The buisness owner could record you and that does not violate your right to privacy.
 
SMTA said:
Then why did you like Your Star's post?

Can't make up your mind, or do you go both ways?
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"Like" does not mean "agree". You can apreciate a good argument while disagreeing with it.
 
joko104 said:
A person has a right to not have someone following with a camera and voice recording continuously. There are restaurants that do not allow you to take pictures. It is illegal to record some one with audio without their permission. Throw the person out!
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Do you realize how many apps require permission to record voice and sound without the user's knowledge?
 
Jerry said:
Do you realize how many apps require permission to record voice and sound without the user's knowledge?
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Do you realize that recording someone's conversation does not require their knowledge or permission?

The app developers are just covering their ass - it is not illegal.
 
Peter Grimm said:
Either this, or we need to evolve as a culture to become more comfortable in our skin. I would already recommend to anyone living in this day and age not to do anything in private that they wouldn't want the whole world to find out about because there is no certainty of privacy anymore.

Likewise, maybe we need to question why certain things embarrass us. Why, for instance, does it matter if someone sees you naked? We all have the same bits and pieces anyway.

It will be interesting to see how society adapts and how people change their thinking to cope with the new reality that you really can't have too many secrets anymore.
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I find it remarkable, really, that young people feel that simply because technology is growing into areas that allow people to surreptitiously be creeps as opposed to overtly being creeps, that suddenly being a creep is now okay and everyone just has to go with the flow and get used to it. A creep is still a creep, regardless of the method, period.
 
Jerry said:
Do you realize how many apps require permission to record voice and sound without the user's knowledge?
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In Florida it is a criminal offense to do an audio recording of anyone unless they first give express permission to do so.
 
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