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Old Apr 28, 2014 | 12:39 pm
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Originally Posted by FredAnderssen
That's cool. Watch video playback to your heart's content, but don't you think there's enough recording going on in the world without you adding to it?
That's a pretty broad assumption to assume that one using Google Glass would automatically be recording stuff. Paint with broad brushes much?

Even if they are recording everything, it's pretty egocentric to assume that they would be following me and recording me. Perhaps they just want to remember every step of a journey or event. If they really want to record me, be my guest. I'm nothing special to look at. There's no expectation of privacy in public. I'm sure I've ended in as background fodder in tons of people's pictures whether on real or phone cameras.

Of course, there's the obvious exception of inappropriate peeping pictures.

Bottom line is it's not your place to tell people how they should use tech. If you don't want to use it, it's your prerogative. Similarly, if someone's using it in public, it's not your place to tell them not to use it, or assume they're recording you.

But back to the main point of the article, UA once again uses a lame excuse to stop use of something a particular FA doesn't understand. The bogus "security" excuses are getting old.
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