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WorLord  ·  4066 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mark Hurst: The Google Glass feature no one is talking about

    Frankly, it might be what we need to finally get a privacy amendment

I'm thinking the opposite: this is exactly what need to finally get the world's populace to understand that "public" is the exact opposite of "private". I don't know when people began to think it is somehow reasonable, to expect privacy in public, but it is a recent thing, nonsensical on its face, and an entitled desire.

When you're in public, you're in public. You will be seen. And the "threat" of being seen and recorded, covertly or otherwise, is almost as old as I am.

If this is what it takes to finally, finally hammer these facts into everyone's heads... well, OK. Maybe we will all, at long last, start to act accordingly, and drop the frivolous lawsuits and faux-astonishment/outrage when we see pictures of ourselves in public places being posted online.