What about a security camera? Is posting a sign sufficient notification for recording? What if I wear glass and a T-shirt that says "I record everything"?
What is the legality of recording a conversation on glass without telling anyone? For example let's say you are in a situation that you know is about to go bad and you record it. At some later date you end up in court over this incident. Is your recording admissimble or not?
Didn't I just cover this exact topic three posts ago?
No, your coverage was more of "can this be used against me, the person who recorded it." My question is more of,"can I use this to cover my ass or will the court say I can't because they will treat it as an illegal wire tapping."
My point is that if the data has been stored on your hard drive or device in a manner that you can access it or change it, there is no chance of it being used as evidence to cover your ass.
If the data is collected automatically and held securely on servers, like phone records are, then I'm sure it'll be admissible in court in the same way.
Personally I want this data for myself, because it is mine. I want it to do fun things with for myself. Legal issues are, in my mind, irrelevant to how I use this data in the future.
I'm not gonna lie, last time I got 3 invites, I found 2 people that wanted it, and put the other one up on eBay and made $800. I bet that guy feels dumb now.
Edit: Or, you know, he's filthy rich and just didn't know the right people, and is busy Scrooge McDuck-ing as we speak.
I'm not gonna lie, last time I got 3 invites, I found 2 people that wanted it, and put the other one up on eBay and made $800. I bet that guy feels dumb now.
Edit: Or, you know, he's filthy rich and just didn't know the right people, and is busy Scrooge McDuck-ing as we speak.
How do you put the invite on eBay? Doesn't that violate terms of service for eBay or Google or something? They don't try to stop you?
You could easily go look at the hundreds of completed auctions for Glass invites on eBay.
There was an article way back, a week or two after I first got Glass, where a Google employee was interviewed and said that selling the device itself was technically against the rules, but that they would not be enforcing this. Given how many people had sold their invites previously and me not catching wind of any issues, I figured what the hell.
I took screenshots of the invite form and put the qualifications (US address) in the auction terms. I also promised to video record me filling their info into the invite form and clicking submit. That, plus me having a very old and active eBay account w/ good ratings must have gotten me an above-average bid, as you could have won several other auctions for ~$550 when I nabbed that $800 payday.
The market has gotta be flooded now. There were 10k Glass invites originally, then each person got 1 invite (20k) then we each got 3 more invites (80k), and now even Rym, who just got in, is saying he's got a set of 3 more. If all the round 3 people get a 3-pack, then we'd be up to 260k potential Glass invites, minus what I'm sure is a non-insignificant number of people who did not get invites for some reason, did not give all of theirs out, or returned their devices.
Glass was the best at-con. I basically never had to turn on my phone's screen to see messages, saving enough battery to where it lasted all day (except the one day I didn't fully charge it and stayed out until 5am).
There was a direct battery savings as a result of using Glass.
Glass had 30% or more battery at the end of each day. Glass never once ran out of battery despite using it as a screen for all notifications and chats.
Granted, I did NOT take much video: that kills the Glass battery faster than anything.
I wore Glass most of the day in NYC on new year's eve. I turned it on when left the house at 10AM and it died at 2AM. It actually outlasted the battery in my Nexus 5 by a half hour. I used Glass as a GPS when driving from my house into Manhattan (~50 min), took about a 75 photos (we did a bit of sightseeing, but no video). I didn't take my phone out much but did occassionally read tweets at points when I was standing around waiting (or pooping).
So yeah, I don't get most of the complaints about battery life. I reliably get 12 hours from it with medium use. Once it becomes an essential piece, I'd be frustrated that it died by dinner time when I leave the house between 5-6AM, but it's got time to improve. It's not the 4 hours that I hear people moan about.
Oh, and Glass is by far the most useful thing in the world if you are chasing a toddler around (much hyperbole). I find it much more useful when I am by myself or with the kid, b/c then I NEVER take my phone out. Voice reply to everything. If I'm in a social situation, or god forbid, a crowd, talking to yourself does get silly (and more challenging, although I find it picks my voice up surprisingly well).
MAGFest was my first con wearing glass all-day every-day and it was similarly awesome. I took a good amount of pictures and a few short videos (blink to pic was very useful) and my battery lasted from noon to 3-4am most days.
I also had over 9000 people ask me about the device, though I supposed that was to be expected.
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If the data is collected automatically and held securely on servers, like phone records are, then I'm sure it'll be admissible in court in the same way.
Personally I want this data for myself, because it is mine. I want it to do fun things with for myself. Legal issues are, in my mind, irrelevant to how I use this data in the future.
Laws like these continue to become more and more meaningless...
Edit: Or, you know, he's filthy rich and just didn't know the right people, and is busy Scrooge McDuck-ing as we speak.
There was an article way back, a week or two after I first got Glass, where a Google employee was interviewed and said that selling the device itself was technically against the rules, but that they would not be enforcing this. Given how many people had sold their invites previously and me not catching wind of any issues, I figured what the hell.
I took screenshots of the invite form and put the qualifications (US address) in the auction terms. I also promised to video record me filling their info into the invite form and clicking submit. That, plus me having a very old and active eBay account w/ good ratings must have gotten me an above-average bid, as you could have won several other auctions for ~$550 when I nabbed that $800 payday.
All Google Music Premium users have access to buying Google Glass now.
There was a direct battery savings as a result of using Glass.
Granted, I did NOT take much video: that kills the Glass battery faster than anything.
So yeah, I don't get most of the complaints about battery life. I reliably get 12 hours from it with medium use. Once it becomes an essential piece, I'd be frustrated that it died by dinner time when I leave the house between 5-6AM, but it's got time to improve. It's not the 4 hours that I hear people moan about.
Oh, and Glass is by far the most useful thing in the world if you are chasing a toddler around (much hyperbole). I find it much more useful when I am by myself or with the kid, b/c then I NEVER take my phone out. Voice reply to everything. If I'm in a social situation, or god forbid, a crowd, talking to yourself does get silly (and more challenging, although I find it picks my voice up surprisingly well).
I also had over 9000 people ask me about the device, though I supposed that was to be expected.
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