Google may not like it, but facial recognition is coming soon to Glass (arstechnica.com)

I wrote an open source face recognition demo here for Google Glass if anyone is interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1aeMJY1AO0 https://github.com/lnanek/MedRefGlass

It doesn't use lambda labs since they weren't out yet, but it is just as easy to use other APIs anyway.

You could easily make it completely opensource and standalone by replacing the calls to web-based api's like lambda or betaface, with the standalone face recognition engine from openbiometrics.org https://github.com/biometrics/openbr

They've said on twitter that glass is deliberately left open / unlocked.

If they don't like it its only because they want to be the only ones doing it. Seriously facial recognition is the one big technology useful on the glass and Google knows that and probably developed a lot for the glass itself.

After the current NSA scandal, is there any chance for wide adoption of a wearable mass spying device ?

Heh, I met this guy last week at a party. Small world when you're in the Bay Area I suppose.