FBI Drags Google Glass Wearer From Theater

By Twisted Kidney
I have a serious problem with a national law enforcement organisation being used to suppress potential intellectual property theft.
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Don't keep up with the law much do you. Video Piracy is a Federal Crime, a Felony, and enforced by the FBI. But you knew that before you posted this inane response right?



That being said, the Big shot moron that called in the FBI was an asshole and the FBI agents should have been a whole lot nicer to the dude. Something like, and I imagine a British Accent, just fits somehow..."Sir, I'm sure you can see that we have a concern .. blah blah ... some way to assure this representative that you were not recording the film .. blah blah .....oh? you don't mind a quick search of the device? Blah blah, very sorry for this unfortunate ... blah blah, here are some free tickets, please enjoy many more happy experiences..... oh, and in future, don't be a bonehead and wear that shit into the theater or you are sure to waste another afternoon with us.
 
It's funny how some people think that being out in public means you've giving up your right to privacy. How long will it be before some company makes mobile shotgun microphones where everyone's 'private' conversations are no longer private because they're taking place in a public park or restaurant?
 
Old_Way said:
It's funny how some people think that being out in public means you've giving up your right to privacy. How long will it be before some company makes mobile shotgun microphones where everyone's 'private' conversations are no longer private because they're taking place in a public park or restaurant?
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When it comes to video recording, I can take pictures and video anywhere in a public place without permission. So yes, as it pertains to video cameras and Google Glass, people are already allowed to film wherever they'd like.
 
xCWolf said:
If you can afford $1500 glasses to get text message and email updates so as to not look at your phone you can afford a backup pair in places where you can't have a camera. Like movie theaters.
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It's not a function of being able to afford a $1500 prototype. What happens when they are available for $300, and it makes sense to get a pair especially over a set of normal prescription glasses.

This is also very new technology, but it's only making the heavy handed actions of the FBI look even more antiquated and wasteful.
 
It will be interesting to see what happens when GG is completely integrated into prescription frames. I wonder if they will always leave some sort of indicator that you are wearing GG.

Also, this seems like a great use of FBI manpower. :rolleyes: Our tax dollars at work!
 
This only makes me wonder what will happen in a few generations of Glass when you can't tell it from a normal pair of glasses and the camera isn't that obvious. The bullshit "don't record me when I'm out in a public place where everyone can see" crowd is going to have an pop an embolism.
 
damn, same thing happened to me when I left my GoPro on my cap..
 
Dwango said:
This only makes me wonder what will happen in a few generations of Glass when you can't tell it from a normal pair of glasses and the camera isn't that obvious. The bullshit "don't record me when I'm out in a public place where everyone can see" crowd is going to have an pop an embolism.
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Just imagine if Google contacts get to the state of Google Glasses.
Amateur porn would explode! (no pun intended)
Seriously though, could you imagine going into a theater and having to get scanned, your cellphone taken and given a full body cavity search before you get to watch "The Hobbit: Part 12, Frodo Comes out of the Closet"?
Hell I'm blind in one eye, what if I had an electronic implant to restore full vision? Just because it MIGHT be able to record would I be banned from theaters? Would I be forced to take my eye out?
 
SGA76 said:
Hell I'm blind in one eye, what if I had an electronic implant to restore full vision?
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Sign me up for one! And yeah, something like that would probably set off every detector and we'd have to pop our eyes out in public to satisfy the brown shirts! Sorry, gotta remove it and leave it in this bin while watching the movie, sir!
 
Who said it was the FBI? None of the quotes bear that out. The articles author is the one that makes the jump to FBI. I have no doubt security and or police were called and possibly present and maybe it was reported to the FBI. But FBI being present, that just seems to be a jump the author made to sensationalize the article for page views.
 
damicatz said:
The FBI is little more than the modern day equivalent of the Nazi SS. The guy they molested would have been within his natural rights to use whatever force was necessary in order to end the assault by the criminal FBI agents.
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HAHAHAHAHHAA, yeah no. Fighting the police is a guaranteed way to put a mark in the losses column.
 
Stupid things happen to stupid people.

Bet that's the last time he uses a recording device in a cinema.

Expensive taxpayer funded lesson learnt.
 
Reloadin said:
Bet that's the last time he uses a recording device in a cinema.
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Everyone brings recording devices into theaters and everyone uses them. Eyes are the camera, ears are the microphone and brain is the storage media.
 
DF-1 said:
The quality of that would've looked like garbage without even considering the guy's head moving all movie.
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Haven't done it in a long time, but have you seen cam downloads? Very typical of what you describe. Trash, head bobbing, breathing, coughing, people walking around, tilted....
 
Commander FAT said:
People need to exercise their fucking rights.

"“What followed was over an hour of the ‘feds’ telling me I am not under arrest, and that this is a ‘voluntary interview’, but if I choose not to cooperate bad things may happen to me,” he explained."

If this is true the guy could have just walked out of there with his property provided he had the balls to tell the feds to go fuck themselves.

Look, it's easy.

"Am I being detained or am I free to go?". Just ask it over and over until you get a straight answer. If you're detained shut the fuck up and lawyer up. If you're free to go then just walk away.
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LOL and what would happen then? He'd probably get shot. There are no rights in the US, especially when an incident involves copyright infringement or conspiracy or possibility of it. Grandmas with no computers have been charged for ridiculous amounts because of the possibility that they may buy a computer and download music. When copyright law is at play, there are no rights.
 
Uvaman said:
Good grief, some reasonable post in here. thank you.
wonder how many actually read the article..
I think the glass is a great idea and a step forward
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I think the reason why people have a negative opinion of Google Glass is because of the really bignormous social and societal implications that widespread use of it implies. It's totally new territory for people to willingly make themselves into a biological tripod to prop up Google's great all seeing eye in exchange for doggie biscuit-esque services they could get anyplace else (like Facebook and Outlook.com or Bing and Ask Jeeves). I think they're blowing it out of proportion though. Uncle Google needs to see what's going on in the world so data about you can be aggregated and compiled. It makes advertisements more accurately target the itchy rashes people get from cheating on their girlfriend with the slut that keeps flirting with his lying, cheating, deserved that STD he got loser who you thought was a decent person because he said he liked long walks on the beach even though he was downloading porn on his phone and not listening the entire time you were went out to dinner. So yeah, keep the Glass on so Google can get more accurate image data than the occasional pic of the inside of your pocket combined with GPS locations.
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
It makes advertisements more accurately target the itchy rashes people get from cheating on their girlfriend with the slut that keeps flirting with his lying, cheating, deserved that STD he got loser who you thought was a decent person because he said he liked long walks on the beach even though he was downloading porn on his phone and not listening the entire time you were went out to dinner. So yeah.
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Well that seemed a bit too detailed to be fabricated...
 
CreepyUncleGoogle said:
I think the reason why people have a negative opinion of Google Glass is because of the really bignormous social and societal implications that widespread use of it implies. It's totally new territory for people to willingly make themselves into a biological tripod to prop up Google's great all seeing eye in exchange for doggie biscuit-esque services they could get anyplace else (like Facebook and Outlook.com or Bing and Ask Jeeves). I think they're blowing it out of proportion though. Uncle Google needs to see what's going on in the world so data about you can be aggregated and compiled. It makes advertisements more accurately target the itchy rashes people get from cheating on their girlfriend with the slut that keeps flirting with his lying, cheating, deserved that STD he got loser who you thought was a decent person because he said he liked long walks on the beach even though he was downloading porn on his phone and not listening the entire time you were went out to dinner. So yeah, keep the Glass on so Google can get more accurate image data than the occasional pic of the inside of your pocket combined with GPS locations.
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Yeah the big issue is how it is basically just a physical tracking device. I'm sure Google also has face recognition systems as well so say someone with GG walks by you it will now know where you are too. Heck, they might even make it so it updates everyone's G+ on their location/status based on the movement of other GG users. So say you're at a hockey game but you were really suppose to go to some dinner that day, someone with GG walks by you and it picks you up on the camera, now your G+ is going to say that you were at that hockey game and with who. They totally have the capability of doing that now. I'm not sure what lenghts they'll actually go, but I could see it happen.

GG would be ok if it was a self contained device that's not tied into any kind of cloud system.
 
fdiaz78 said:
Maybe because the concept of a camera in your face ALL THE TIME makes people uncomfortable myself included. You do not know who is watching on the other side of the camera. People including myself make stupid daily decisions. Just dropping the F bomb, caught on GG and rebroadcasted to millions could spell career suicide. People are entitled to a speck of personal privacy.
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This is exactly it. Many of us feel that this has the potential to get out of hand as some of us still expect some level of privacy in our lives.
 


Its all coming down man. Everyone, grab your popcorn. Hold your loved ones. And watch it burn. It should be a good show.
 
Am I the only one who doesn't believe that it was the FBI at all?

Has there been any proof of this incident even happening? As far as I can tell this story stems from an anonymous post from The Gadgeteer, and all other articles stem from that information only. I'm not saying it didn't happen... but I don't think it happened at all ... at least with the FBI. Since none of the stories could get the movie theater to comment makes me think it's more along the line of "Better be first then correct" type of stories.
 
Ragenrok said:
Wow go screw yourself. He deserved to be thrown out? Why cause he had a Google glass, I find it so ironic that a forum for technology would think this, its not like he was wearing it in the movies for kicks. They were his legitimate prescription glasses as well, mabey its a bit tackey but trying to make them part of his nornal life doesn't warrent being treated like dirt.
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Wow go screw yourself, it's an HD camera. They asked him to stop pointing his camera at the screen and he shot some bull at them. Be prepared to leave your HD video camera outside the theatre or don't go. It's not unreasonable to ask him to leave.

Calling the police is unreasonable.

The fact the the FBI responded is beyond comprehension.
 
Apparently we solved all our other crime or this was so important to send a few field agents to check for a person who may or may not be engaged in record a movie that would be completely unwatchable if he had done so.
 
As much as Google Glasses are fodder for jokes about hipsters and uber geeks, this is a components of personal computers of the future believe it or not.
Consider the fact that most everyone carries a smart phone (yes, even me now). The computing power and the versatility of this device is amazing to be pocket size and battery powered. Even my low end phone has voice recognition tech that works great. You can tell it what you want, it will do it.
All that is lacking the screen output being delivered to the eye without you having to look down at a screen in your hand. This tech is what Google Glasses embodies.
There is already pupil tracking for mouse movement, (tech researched for handicap individuals) blink for right click, blink twice for left click etc.
Yep, wearable computers.
Even if you think everything you need a powerful PC, yeah same here. I can't imaging editing audio and video with a wearable PC.
But since most peoples computing tasks are light, these are the ones that quickly dumped desktop PCs for laptops, and many dumped laptops for tablets.
Most people it is word processing and spread sheets, typical office tasks. A smart phone equivalent wearable computer is more than up to this task. You are always connected, always in touch, until you choose not to be.
You dictate to the computer your letters, tell it to save it, or print it. Then tell it to open email, dictate and email, tell it to who to send it to, etc, etc. No desk, no pen or paper. Just you, and that wearable computer will become an integrated part of you. I wouldn't say "cyborg" or anything like that.
But will be considered that professionals work in this manner.
For those who still prefer a keyboard and monitor it will be considered quaint but backward.
Just like the folks that won't relinquish their typewriter.

What strange days we live in..........
 
Twisted Kidney said:
Wow go screw yourself, it's an HD camera. They asked him to stop pointing his camera at the screen and he shot some bull at them. Be prepared to leave your HD video camera outside the theatre or don't go. It's not unreasonable to ask him to leave.

Calling the police is unreasonable.

The fact the the FBI responded is beyond comprehension.
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Actually, it says he's worn it there several times before and the theater never complained. (People are even calling the theater and asking if Google Glass is ok there, the theater is refusing to say if they do or don't allow people in with Google Glass - if the theater is out and out against them they should be telling everybody who calls that Google Glass is not allowed)

Then suddenly this time (without any warning that this time would be different) they just come in and grab him and yank him out. Right now at $1,500 as others have said it's not a widespread thing that's going to be happening, but when the final version comes out, and it's $200 you're going to be seeing a lot more of them out there. As they become more integrated with stylish designs, and cheaper you will see them become people's main glasses (and people are not going to carry around a 2nd pair of glasses anymore than they do already - it's just too much extra to carry around.)

Now, we could make it illegal to film other people in public - but I doubt companies like Walmart, Target, or really any retailer would support such a law because they want the ability to record you. Tons of other corporations already have cameras everywhere you move - heck, the movie theater probably has cameras themselves. You're deluding yourself if you think somebody with Google Glass is recording you YET you also think nobody else is already recording you. You're also deluding yourself if you think all those cameras up there on the ceiling everywhere you already go are somehow secure and that if you do something really embarrassing that the footage from that security camera can't find it's way onto the internet just as easily as it might with somebody recording with Google Glass.
 
The guy was done wrong. But still, perhaps a warming to the morons walking around with their GG's all the time, you risk getting punched in the face if the wrong person thinks you are recording them or at least getting your GG snatched of your face and thrown on the ground and stomped on.
 
By LeninGHOLA
I wouldn't let the guy in the theater with a recording device on his face, but good lord the FBI acted like a bunch of thugs here.
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If the article accurately portrays the incident, I agree completely.

By Damicatz
The FBI is little more than the modern day equivalent of the Nazi SS. The guy they molested would have been within his natural rights to use whatever force was necessary in order to end the assault by the criminal FBI agents.
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Ohhh, I think you give the FBI far too much credit. I don't think they are in the same league at all. The Nazi SS were far better at being thugs then the FBI are.

At the same time, I don't think the guy was assaulted at all. But if the article is correct, I think the guy was treated badly and that it was all handled badly.

Although this guy did a really boneheaded thing wearing those glasses to the theater, there are other ways to deal with it with far less risk of making yourself look like assholes.
 
Google blurs out license plates and fire hydrants on street view. They should have it automatically do the same with GG to anything playing on a video display and also any tacky clothing covered in company logo's.
 
By UrielDagda;
So the FBI doesn't have anything else better to do than to be the corporate police?
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Are you a moron? I am hoping not, I am hoping you are just being too lazy to use your brain for something more then a hair anchor.

Yes, the FBI does have better things to do, they just can't do only those things and not do the others. They'd have more time for the really good stuff if it weren't for stupid assholes who pirate movies and the people who think it's ok to download them.
 
Twisted Kidney said:
Wow go screw yourself, it's an HD camera. They asked him to stop pointing his camera at the screen and he shot some bull at them. Be prepared to leave your HD video camera outside the theatre or don't go. It's not unreasonable to ask him to leave.

Calling the police is unreasonable.

The fact the the FBI responded is beyond comprehension.
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By that logic anyone walking down the street with a gun should be shot on sight.
 
biggles said:
http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arrest-a-google-glass-user/

Original article here. Note the google glass user had already visited this theater twice in the past wearing google glass without incident. Also, the detailed info should show this really happened.
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Went from weird to weirder, they publish a story written by someone who's credibility is "he's a long time reader" and "in law enforcement" not sure what he does for law enforcement but the way the story is written it doesn't seem like he's law enforcement unless he's a meter maid or a clerk or something. Although apparently not FBI but ICE with DHS? Would they be that close to have someone there within an hour?

Either way, not the FBI :)
 
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