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^^ Real talk...this facebook dialogue is , the commentary.....but is likely a historical document in the sense....this is first of many many many many conversations about where these glasses/and others like it will it be allowed.......................

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This thread deserves triple play status ...

 

[newworldafro]

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....

I recognize the Twlight Zone has been ballin out of control the last 10+ years....but this here is literally in your face (please don't ask me how)

 

[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.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Don't have to worry about big brother filming your every move with drones and shyt. You basically doing all the work for him w/ all your gadgets

 

[NZA]

i think somebody was assaulted at mcdonalds because of these glasses.

 

[the mechanic]

i think somebody was assaulted at mcdonalds because of these glasses.

That guy was visually impaired

Steve Mann's Blog: Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass

people will have to get over their fears..this shyt is here to stay and fighting it is a waste of time and energy

reminds me of slow glass in that sci fi classic Other Days other eyes .....( if you havent read it i recommend it)...once we get over the idea that anyone could be watching you anytime people will start to behave themselves a little better

 

[Stepdaddy]

we gotta punch these hipster terminators on sight

I bet paparazzi can't wait either

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

That guy was visually impaired

Steve Mann's Blog: Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass

people will have to get over their fears..this shyt is here to stay and fighting it is a waste of time and energy

reminds me of slow glass in that sci fi classic Light of Other Days.....( if you havent read it i recommend it)...once we get over the idea that anyone could be watching you anytime people will start to behave themselves a little better

what the fukk is wrong with people? Why would it make you so furious that someone is wearing some special glasses? shyt doesn't make any sense. There are cameras EVERYWHERE in Europe.

 

[West Coast Avenger]

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.......that cac on the far right already mad cause they took his pic........I know where that spot is and Im not surprised......

 

[ltheghost]

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.......that cac on the far right already mad cause they took his pic........I know where that spot is and Im not surprised......

He looked like he was ready to go to the county lock up for the shyt he was getting ready to do. LOL

 

[the mechanic]

what the fukk is wrong with people? Why would it make you so furious that someone is wearing some special glasses? shyt doesn't make any sense. There are cameras EVERYWHERE in Europe.

People are generally not used to thinking so they confuse anonymity with privacy..like those mcdonalds workers acted like idiots to the vision impaired guy yet mcdonalds itself has surveillance cameras everywhere.

The cameras are here to stay...like the internet....people are gonna have to start adapting to the idea that every-time your fukking up it can and may be uploaded anytime anywhere just like in the sci fi book i mentioned in the other post ...

 

[newworldafro]

Banned in N.J., is Google Glass allowed in Philly casinos? - Philadelphia Business Journal

Now that Google Glass will likely be banned at all New Jersey casinos, is it acceptable at casinos in other states?

Google Glass Banned At Google Shareholder Meeting - Slashdot

Tight security restrictions at Thursday's Google shareholder meeting led even the company's much-hyped Google Glass technology to be banned, infuriating a consumer watchdog group who accused the tech giant of hypocrisy. ... oh shiit ...

This is even more telling, this link is keeping track of many places banning GoogGlass. ... hospitals, school gymnasiums, driving in your car, movie theaters ...... worth checking out.... Tracking: The Ban On Google Glass | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Porn Apps Banned From Google Glass
Porn Apps Banned From Google Glass

The company that released the first pornographic app for Google Glass on Monday later found out Google had changed its policies to prevent sexually explicit "Glassware" content from being used on the device.

"We don't allow Glassware content that contains nudity, graphic sex acts, or sexually explicit material," the Glass Platform Developer Policies now state. "Google has a zero-tolerance policy against child pornography. If we become aware of content with child pornography, we will report it to the appropriate authorities and delete the Google Accounts of those involved with the distribution."

Google told ABC News the policy was updated last week. Jesse Adams, CEO of MiKandi, the company that developed the "T*** & Glass" app, said in a blog post Monday his company had not received a notification from Google about the changes but would change the app to comply with the updated policy.

"When we received our Glass and started developing our app 2 weeks ago, we went through the policy very carefully to make sure we were developing the app within the terms," wrote Adams. "We double checked again last week when making the site live on the Internet and available for install for testing during last week's announcement. We were not notified of any changes and still haven't been notified by Google."

Adams claimed nearly 10,000 unique visitors visited the app's website in the hours following its release, and a dozen Glass users signed up to use it.

"Besides point-of-view content, we're interested in Glass' potential to facilitate two-way adult interaction. For example, between long-distance couples, cam models and fans or strangers." MiKandi co-founder Jennifer McEwen previously told Mashable.

 

[Brown Ant]

Google glass is trash.

 

[concise]

Tight security restrictions at Thursday's Google shareholder meeting led even the company's much-hyped Google Glass technology to be banned, infuriating a consumer watchdog group who accused the tech giant of hypocrisy...

 

[Day_Walker]

Tight security restrictions at Thursday's Google shareholder meeting led even the company's much-hyped Google Glass technology to be banned, infuriating a consumer watchdog group who accused the tech giant of hypocrisy...

cellphones are also banned in there so don't see the big deal.