"Google Glass Banned at Seattle Dive Bar"

[newworldafro]

Seattle bar bans Google Glass - Silicon Valley Business Journal

Google Glass banned at Seattle dive bar

Mar 11, 2013, 11:04am PDT

Preeti Upadhyaya

5 Point Cafe, a dive bar in Seattle, has banned Google Glass, the high-end specs that put your smartphone's capabilities on your face. The dive bar's reason? Privacy concerns, including the fact that the glasses can be used to discretely take video.

The bar outlined its problems with the glasses in a Facebook post here.

"For the record, the 5 Point is the first Seattle business to ban in advance Google Glasses. And an a** kicking will be encouraged for violators," the post reads.

5 Point owner Dave Meinert told GeekWire that the culture of the bar, which he calls a "sometimes seedy, maybe notorious place," is the reason he's keeping Google's heads-up display out.

"People want to go there and be not known...and definitely don't want to be secretly filmed or videotaped and immediately put on the Internet," Meinert said.

While the 5 Point Cafe might be the first business to outright ban Google Glass to protect customer privacy, it is unlikely to be the last as the discrete augmented reality technology becomes more prevalent. Is Google worried about a privacy backlash?

In an e-mail, a Google spokesperson told me, "It is still very early days for Glass, and we expect as with other new technologies, such as cell phones, behaviors and social norms will develop over time."

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^^ Real talk...this facebook dialogue is , the commentary.....but is likely a historical document (publicity stunt is esque...)......in the sense....this is first of many many many many conversations about where these glasses/and others like will it be allowed.......................

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This thread deserves triple play status ...

 

[MightyHealthy]

The technology will be amazing, but creepers abusing this is sadly the first thing I thought of...

...this is obviously a stunt, though.

 

[newworldafro]

The technology will be amazing, but creepers abusing this is sadly the first thing I thought of...

...this is obviously a stunt, though.

????

This is not going to be the LAST place to outright ban these glasses/or similar "eyetech"........

I was trying to think of some places where there would be ban of these...one thing came to mind was taking an SAT or a major test in school.............at certain business meetings......private/family functions............etc etc etc...................................................................etc

playing a tournament chess match.......nah.....

....so many scenarios....


I'm NOT SAYING this technology won't have some amazing applications in dozens upon dozens of scenarios.....but the functionality and how this is worn is a "social tweaker" for lack of better word or phrase.....casually, walking around recording (if you so choose) your entire day's interaction of your life and other people's lives and they not even aware of this is some next level shiit........imho....

 

[MightyHealthy]

I'm confused by your confusion. I pretty much agree with everything you've said.

Also, the bar admitted it was a stunt:

Seattle Bar That Banned Google Glasses Admits It Was a PR Stunt - Forbes

 

[newworldafro]

I'm confused by your confusion. I pretty much agree with everything you've said.

Also, the bar admitted it was a stunt:

Seattle Bar That Banned Google Glasses Admits It Was a PR Stunt - Forbes

So you think they going let law school graduates take their state bar exam rocking a fresh pair of GoogGlass??

??? ...... etc etc ... I'm just saying there is going to be some public sphere conflict coming over these gadgets/devices/babyangeldemonshybrids ...... thats alll ....

...at the very least it will be interesting to see how society implements it..to what degree....

 

[Fury616]

nice marketing strategy, not bad at all

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Like any social person is gonna wear that shyt

 

[MightyHealthy]

So you think they going let law school graduates take their state bar exam rocking a fresh pair of GoogGlass??

??? ...... etc etc ... I'm just saying there is going to be some public sphere conflict coming over these gadgets/devices/babyangeldemonshybrids ...... thats alll ....

...at the very least it will be interesting to see how society implements it..to what degree....

When it comes to proctored exams, it will be banned just like smartphones are

(it was graphic calculators back in my day, damn I'm getting old )

You do have a point though, this stuff might be banned at a far greater level than any other device we've seen.

 

[newworldafro]

Google Glass: The opposition grows | Internet & Media - CNET News

Google Glass: The opposition grows

"Stop The Cyborgs" is a new site that attempts to bring a balanced trepidation to the unbalanced idea that we'll all be walking round with Google's outer brain strapped to our faces.

by Chris Matyszczyk
| March 15, 2013 12:21 PM PDT

The opposition will congregate in dark corners.

They will whisper with their mouths, while their eyes will scan the room for spies wearing strange spectacles.

The spies will likely be men. How many women would really like to waft down the street wearing Google Glass?

It won't be easy. Once you've been cybernated, there's no turning back. Which is why the refuseniks are already meeting in shaded corners of the Web.

One site is called "Stop The Cyborgs." It claims to be "fighting the algorithmic future one bit at a time."

The opposition will congregate in dark corners.

They will whisper with their mouths, while their eyes will scan the room for spies wearing strange spectacles.

The spies will likely be men. How many women would really like to waft down the street wearing Google Glass?

It won't be easy. Once you've been cybernated, there's no turning back. Which is why the refuseniks are already meeting in shaded corners of the Web.

One site is called "Stop The Cyborgs." It claims to be "fighting the algorithmic future one bit at a time."

A sticker being offered on the "Stop The Cyborgs" Web site.

Still, those whose intelligent pleasures reside in online shopping will be overjoyed that there is a "Stop The Cyborgs" store.

There you can buy all sorts of goodies to protest your coming psychological annihilation.

There is hope for these clearly human anti-cyborgians, though.

Firstly, there's the very basic human sense of style that might reject Google's glasses as devilishly ugly.

There's an even greater hope: global warming might destroy us first.

 

[The Phoenix]

You can try....but they'll come a time where glasses like this will look like any other pair of glasses. You won't be able to tell unless the person tells you specifically that they are some sort of "glass" type glasses. You might as well embrace the tech and be on your way.

 

[newworldafro]

You can try....but they'll come a time where glasses like this will look like any other pair of glasses. You won't be able to tell unless the person tells you specifically that they are some sort of "glass" type glasses. You might as well embrace the tech and be on your way.

I'll say it again... the technology is cool....but it goes way past just having a phone in your hand.....you are projecting everything you do and everything you come in contact with....that's a whole other paradigm......

 

[teacher]

You can try....but they'll come a time where glasses like this will look like any other pair of glasses. You won't be able to tell unless the person tells you specifically that they are some sort of "glass" type glasses. You might as well embrace the tech and be on your way.

Gucci Google-tech

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[mbewane]

Owner of custom Google Glass-type eyewear bullied, assaulted while on vacation

I expect a lot of this stuff to happen.

 

[Diyhai]

The technology will be amazing, but creepers abusing this is sadly the first thing I thought of...

...this is obviously a stunt, though.

creepers do it now with cellphones
shyt aint no different