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Not much info on that page, except for the link to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWmGX55a40 Watching it now. It gets interesting at 16:30. By the looks of it, developers won't get direct access to the hardware; everything will go through a Google-hosted cloud API.

I've mostly always handwaved away concerns people had about Google and privacy as being overblown, and I think the idea behind Glass is pretty cool and potentially limitlessly useful, but the privacy implications of a world where Glass-users are common and all data goes through a single entity are staggering. Particularly since they will impact you even if you aren't explicitly opted in (just being seen/scanned by someone who is wearing the device potentially involves you in it).

A world with even just a fraction of a percent of people actively wearing the devices but with all that real-world data streaming back to The Goog in real-time would make Batman's little cell-phone network scanning thing in The Dark Knight look absolutely quaint in comparison.

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