How people respond to being filmed (with devices like Google glass) (youtube.com)

I'm convinced that Google Glass will fail for this exact reason. People really don't like being recorded. Even though surveillance cameras are widespread, it's much more personal when you can see the person recording you.

All it will take is one creepy app for Google Glass and people will start to revolt. Imagine an app that has a large amateur porn database that does facial recognition on people around you and displays naked images of similar looking people. Obviously that would be an incredibly hard software problem to get working well, but it doesn't have to work well; in fact it doesn't have to work at all. All that is needed is a single article about it in the press and it will take off.

I imagine that a very loud privacy vs free speech debate is imminent.

I think this is a bad example, because one of the YouTube video comments are right (to me): "The point you are trying to make is lost when you film people in a private place! That actually is not allowed." This experiment is sort of flawed since he does just budge into private rooms/settings and everything without permission. Also, I suspect he has a decent size camera (by some of the reactions), and not something discrete like Google Glass. I wonder if people would have reacted any differently if he was just doing this with Google Glass and it wasn't as obvious he had a big camera on them. He would have probably been treated just like anyone else interrupting a class or private setting. Also, they wouldn't have mentioned the video, but the results would have been the same.

I would like to see this experiment done in a public settings, or this same experiment but with a much more discrete camera.

  Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bT1ZfRtrJc
  Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHG9ouQ17-M

AJ Jacobs at Esquire magazine wrote about his experience doing something similar back in December: http://www.esquire.com/features/overly-documented-life-0113