Google Glass is a potentially revolutionary technology that could fundamentally shift the way that humans interact with their environment, and dramatically improve productivity. But the product also requires the user, and anyone who comes into contact with the user, to be prepared to have the boundaries of their privacy stripped away.

Google Glass will in effect be the equivalent of allowing a media corporation the right to install mobile CCTV cameras everywhere, while gathering data about the environment, people and places that appear on those screens. Personal data becomes recordable, shareable, and quanitfiable in a way that we have not seen before – and Google controls the data stream.

You as a user cannot control or own the data, and where it ends up is a mystery.

Business owners and municipalities in the United States have preemptively designated non-Google Glass areas. A campaign, “Stop the Cyborgs” is lobbying to ensure places of work, cafes, bars and public spaces are non-Google Glass areas.

[Source: Telegraph]