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The latest news on Google Glass....
The Congressional Privacy Caucus has asked Google for more
information on the privacy policies it will include with its newest
interface, Glass.
The bipartisan committee, led by Joe Barton (R-Tex.), presented
Google with a series of questions related to how the privacy of
non-users will be protected with Glass. Glass has the potential, though
it’s not currently active, to take photographs when the user winks, for
example. As image recognition technology becomes more sophisticated,
those captured in images may be linked to online profiles or other
sources of information about them.
Yesterday, in its roll-out of automatic image-enhancing technology,
Google said that it could tell which photos in an uploaded set included
family members, suggesting that it can identify people who appear in a
photograph.
Glass doesn’t include any new features per se, but because its users
wear the eyeglass-shaped interface constantly, those around them may not
know when and how it is being used.
“From beginning, social implications and social etiquette
has been at the top of our mind in how we design and develop the
product, not only for people wearing Glass but also for the people
around them,” said Steve Lee, the product director, in response to a
question.
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Let's hope we're ALL too busy to embrace this and it will become another bad idea in search of a purpose.
