Summary Of Google Glass

In this article, Proffitt is explaining how Google’s new invention, Google Glass, is a serious privacy concern for all the people that are part of a society where it exists. Proffitt brings up the issue of an abuse of power, and constantly reminds his readers that nothing down in public will ever be anonymous again. It is interesting how he brings up security cameras that are in all public places, and contrasts them with Google Glass, which is essentially the same thing, except not used for security reasons. Also, he brings up multiple scenarios where this invasion of privacy would be seen as a problem. He mentions the idea of facial recognition becoming more popular in being able to find people that are of value, or of personal recognition. All of these breeches in security lead back to Google Glass almost being a form of a threat to society. Proffitt states, “I keep coming back to how this technology can be abused” where he himself is reiterating that with all of the societal issues in public and personal privacy, an addition of another recording device will just put more pressure on people to constantly live with a concern in their minds that they are not safe in their environments. …show more content…
This is where one major issue comes from because they would rather mass produce products that could be potentially harmful to privacy rights of people in society. Google seems, in the way that Proffitt is describing the company as almost selfish because they are not thinking about the greater good, just of the immediate