Google Glass at Your Own Peril

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Below is a light hearted piece by Robert Hansen, Technical Evangelist, WhiteHat Security, on Google Glass and where you should most definitely not try and attempt to wear them.

I made this list to help people understand why surveillance at all times is not acceptable. There are plenty of times throughout the day that it’s just totally unacceptable, rude or otherwise dangerous to be photographing anything with a device on your head. Besides looking idiotic, Google Glass solves a problem almost no one has, and ultimately introduces a lot of additional issues in the process of just making the person wearing it look dorky.

Here is a list of some of the places and situations in which it is inappropriate to wear Google Glass. Places/scenarios where it will be assumed you are a p**vert, or an idiot and are likely to get yourself beaten up, arrested, fired, shunned, or have your Google Glass (or yourself) broken, etc:

In the shower (I’m looking at you Scoble), especially in a communal one at a campground, prison, etc.

At any point where a police officer may decide that it is illegal – which, honestly, seems like pretty much any time at all these days.

In bed with someone you just met, unless that’s their thing

In a confessional, hearing a confession

At a urinal, especially a trough style urinal at a football game

At the movie theater

At a concert

Just checking in to make sure everything is okay during your daughter’s slumber party

While buying condoms, sanitary pads, or anything else, where it is assumed one wouldn’t want photographic evidence

While committing any crime at all, even J-walking, or speeding

In the changing room

At a strip club or burlesque show

While scuba diving

While playing or working on a casino floor

While operating heavy machinery – automobiles (especially during any sort of Irish road racing), airplanes, front end loaders, excavators, etc.

At bars

Courtrooms (especially federal) unless specifically authorized to do so

While taking a test of just about any kind

In any location at any time in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, South Dakota and Utah unless people give consent and/or recognize that they are under surveillance, due to covert surveillance laws

During takeoff or landing

The sauna

Clothing optional beaches/resorts

During many televised sporting events

In many Museums

At the United Nations

At most hospitals (especially while giving an OBGYN checkup, a venereologist exam or a proctology checkup)

While doing interviews for plastic surgery

During a psychiatric therapy session

While selling women’s shoes

While giving pedicures

Pretty much any profession involving children

While performing any job with top secret clearance

During an MMA fight or while boxing

While giving a massage

While in a locker room