I’m not bashing Google Glass, I certainly see the value of a heads up display that is hands free and connected to the internet. But this situation is inevitable. Who wants to be recorded without their permission?
A San Francisco woman who says she was attacked at a bar on Haight Street after refusing to stop wearing Google Glass has released video footage of the incident that she filmed with the new technology that spurred the confrontation in the first place.
“This is the video that I got on Google Glass at Molotov bar on Haight Street after being verbally accosted and flicked off by the Asian looking girl, I turned on the video, and after I told them I was doing so they got pissed and came after me,” Slocum wrote.
“Unfortunately, I had not extended the video so it cuts out after 10 seconds. Here you can see them — two people, a male and a female — trying to block the camera. The guy waving his hands in my face here later rips the Google Glasses off my face and ran out of the bar,” she wrote.
Not sure if there is a legal difference between this sort of video and the video recorded by unseen security cameras. But I suspect people feel differently about going into a bar with a security camera and being recorded by someone wearing Google Glass. I know I do.
The video in question is below.