Are you familiar with "Google Glass"?

GPS · Oct 5, 2013

You've probably heard about Google's "Glass" project by now, they are basically a device that looks like a pair of eyeglasses with built-in audio and video recording that uploads all the data it collects to the Internet, it's been in the news everywhere.

Interesting read.

Via CNN:

Google Glass, the beginning of wearable surveillance
By Michael Chertoff, Special to CNN

Editor's note: Michael Chertoff, secretary of Homeland Security in the George W. Bush administration, is chairman and co-founder of The Chertoff Group, a global security advisory firm.
(CNN) -- Imagine a world in which every major company in America flew hundreds of thousands of drones overhead, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, collecting data on what Americans were doing down below. It's a chilling thought that would engender howls of outrage.
Now imagine that millions of Americans walk around each day wearing the equivalent of a drone on their head: a device capable of capturing video and audio recordings of everything that happens around them. And imagine that these devices upload the data to large-scale commercial enterprises that are able to collect the recordings from each and every American and integrate them together to form a minute-by-minute tracking of the activities of millions.
That is almost precisely the vision of the future that lies directly ahead of us. Not, of course, with wearable drones but with wearable Internet-connected equipment. This new technology -- whether in the form of glasses or watches -- may unobtrusively capture video data in real time, store it in the cloud and allow for it to be analyzed.

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/opinion/chertoff-wearable-devices/

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