I find this very worrying

Dorsetmike

Member
I think it's about time somebody did something to restrain Google, this is going way beyond common sense. The ability to upload from such a device opens a very big can of worms. Mobile phones and other "personal" devices - pads and androids etc are bad enough but this goes over the top.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-glasses-turn-world-search-giants-spies.html

This paragraph should cause people to dump Gmail

The company analyses emails sent to and from Google email accounts, photographs people’s houses and back gardens as part of its Street View mapping project, and — as the company admitted in the U.S. last week — has looted passwords and medical and financial information by snooping on unprotected wi-fi accounts.

Where will it end?
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Big Brother really is watching you. A recent program listed the number of times a person was watched on CCTV. This included road and traffic cameras also shops as well as street cams. Horrifying

teddy
 

Dorsetmike

Member
You can just imagine the scene at a road accident

"I'm sorry, I didn't see the cyclist, I was watching a youtube video on my Google goggles following a link from MIMF"
 

teddy

Duckmeister
I know several cyclists who carry web cams attached to their helmets. Whether this is to record where they have been or to photograph the person who hit them I am not sure.

teddy
 

Dorsetmike

Member
Those trees and the rocks look a bit daunting, I would imagine a certain level of death wish exists among the practitioners. Not the sort of thing our American friends would do much of given their medical insurance culture, self inflicted injuries not being covered???????
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
I think it's about time somebody did something to restrain Google, this is going way beyond common sense. The ability to upload from such a device opens a very big can of worms. Mobile phones and other "personal" devices - pads and androids etc are bad enough but this goes over the top.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-glasses-turn-world-search-giants-spies.html

This paragraph should cause people to dump Gmail


I actually found the "glasses" quite crude from a tech standpoint - USAF Fighter pilots visors can be readily adapted for real-time photo/scanning and info displays only seen from the inside. Only time is needed for when the next-gen glasses are practically indistinguishable from other "normal" glasses. It does pose quite a few problems although to have such glasses.
 
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Dorsetmike

Member
Only time is needed for when the next-gen glasses are practically indistinguishable from other "normal" glasses. It does pose quite a few problems although to have such glasses.

The biggest problem as I see it is the invasion of privacy among other things, as it mentions in the quote Google are not noted for their attitude to privacy and civil rights (e.g. copyright and data protection).

Somebody suggested this scenario on another forum, a possible extension of social networking?

Just imagine if these became as popular as mobiles - with current face recognition as demonstrated on Facebook photo galleries, even people who didn't agree to using them will have their whereabouts logged... Imagine the social media feeds:

Excerpt from Glass social network site Spied:

Chain Started 9.03am using auto-friend-log. By activating auto-friend-log you have agreed to the terms and conditions of using Spied Social Network.

'9.03am: Mark Smith (non-user, friend-logged) and Martha Smith (non-user, friend-logged) were spied leaving their house by Ian Roberts (user, chain starter, chain started with face recognition feature auto-friend-log) out walking his dog Raymond (user, chain co-starter, chain started with face recognition feature auto-friend-log for pets)'

'9.27am: Mark Smith (non-user) and Martha Smith (non-user) were spied filling their car at Supermarket filling station by Susan Greenhill (user) filling her car, and Gary Binbrook (user) an hour and 27 minutes into his shift at the garage.'

'9.33am: Mark Smith (non-user) and Martha Smith (non-user) were spied doing their sunday shop by their mutual friend Sally Hawthorn (user) doing her sunday shop (friend activity logger using our new activity-auto-log activity logging algorithm. Upgrade to Pro account for details and free trial) and at least 48 other people (registered users, estimated non-users present: 3)'

'10.21am: Mark Smith (non-user) and Martha Smith (non-user) were spied checking out by Mary Westholme (user, activity auto logged via interaction) two hours and 21 minutes into her shift at the supermarket, and at least 28 other people (registered users, estimated non-users present: 0) Mary posted an I-Spy comment on this spy "I wished them a nice day when I finished scanning their items (interaction auto-logged) because they were nice, I don't do that for just anybody you know. If they're horrible I wish them a nice life but if they are horrible they never notice what you say to them anyway."'

'10.26am: Mark Smith (non-user) and Martha Smith (non-user) were spied packing their car by John Wimbledon, parking (user, activity-auto-logger) and two others (registered users, estimated non-users present: unable to estimate, exterior public place.)'

'11.04am: Mark Smith (non-user) and Martha Smith (non-user) were spied stuck in traffic by Ben Warminster (activity logged by association) on his way to the hospital. Ben posted an I-Spy comment about this spy: "I *expletives censored - please see censor settings to allow expletives* HATE SUNDAY DRIVERS WHEN I HAVE SOMWHERE TO BE!!!!"'

'11.59am: Mark Smith (non-user) and Martha Smith (non-user) were spied by officer PC Wright (Moderator, law enforcer), in attendance to 999 call. Officer Wright posted an I-Spy comment about this spy: "This appears to have been an opportunist break in. Looking at my Spied network, it looks like someone auto-logged a chain publicly giving theives a whereabouts of the home owners and their likely window of opportunity for a break in. Careless spying not only leaves you at risk, but those around you too. Check your security settings today to prevent your friends and family suffering in a similar manner."'

Chain force-stopped under the Personal Privacy and Use of Data Act and taken in evidence. Chain starters will be held pending investigation, for aiding and abetting a crime (Personal Privacy and Use of Data Act subsection 4 clause 1.3: Providing Information To Third Parties). In accordance with our terms and conditions, Spied Social Network takes no responsibility for the actions of its users. Please use Spied responsibly.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
A chap I was friendly with who lived in the village made the mistake of talking explicitly, to his girlfriend on an analogue wireless telephone. This conversation was picked up by his neighbour (who was friendly with said persons wife) on his car radio when parked outside. Said person no longer lives in the village or owns a detached house!!!!!

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
All this overt surveillance has been going on for years in one form or another, The golden rule is never put in an email anything that you want to keep private, same regarding mobile phones. Regarding WiFi being leached I don't know a lot about this but I have a WiFi set up that covers the house and garden and it is p/w protected so in my innocence I assume this is safe. I heard that they are developing smaller and smaller drones that will keep an eye on us so who watches the watchers?
 

teddy

Duckmeister
I have been informed by a usually reliable source that supermarkets place tiny cameras around the store, almost invisible to the naked eye, so they can see peoples reactions to various products and displays. Stoping shoplifting is one thing but such intimate prying is something else.

teddy
 

Krummhorn

Administrator
Staff member
ADMINISTRATOR
Y'all did notice that MIMF had tapped into your webcams too ... I'm enjoying the facial expressions as you read that ... :lol: ...

(No, we are not doing that, can't do it morally or physically ... but I had to throw it into the mix anyway. :devil:

Seriously though, we do not have much, if any, privacy anymore. The store cameras, on the guise of preventing theft, are always watching ... even ghosting programs that can track every keystroke on our PC's probably exist ... I know they did where I had worked.

Even traffic intersections have cameras ... and over here the red light cameras and speed cameras ... wife got caught by one - we got a letter with clear as a bell photos of her car, her clear picture behind the wheel ... $380 (USD) fine.

Don't know where it all stops ... or if it ever will. For me, technology is advancing way too fast.

Lars ♫
 

teddy

Duckmeister
There is a photo on YT taken by a speed camera of a young lady doing something very naughty (but nice) to the male driver as he broke the speed limit. That would be worth a speeding ticket.

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
There is a photo on YT taken by a speed camera of a young lady doing something very naughty (but nice) to the male driver as he broke the speed limit. That would be worth a speeding ticket.

teddy
Oh shite, I hope no one posts it, I'll be gone by lunch time
 

teddy

Duckmeister
I seem to be having a spate of double posting. This last one, I thought I had deleted but there it was this morning,

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
I seem to be having a spate of double posting. This last one, I thought I had deleted but there it was this morning,

teddy
The problem is that you can not delete a thread but you can edit and put a string of dots or such and then make another post
 
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