Seattle Bar Owner Bans Google Glass, In Advance 471
An anonymous reader writes "A popular Seattle bar and restaurant has posted a notice on its Facebook page warning patrons that wearing Google Glass will not be tolerated. 'Ass kicking will be encouraged for violators,' wrote Dave Meinert, owner of the 5 Point Cafe, perhaps in a mock aggressive tone. GeekWire reports that Meinert raised privacy concerns in an interview with a local radio station: 'People want to go there and be not known and definitely don't want to be secretly filmed or videotaped and immediately put on the Internet.' A subsequent FB post includes more Meinert musings on Google Glass: 'They are really just the new fashion accessory for the fanny pack & never removed Bluetooth headset wearing set,' along with unflattering photos of a pair of early adopters."
Re:What is this conservatard shit? (Score:3, Informative)
Google Glass doesn't work that way. It it's on, it UPLOADS.
The owner is totally correct, put the devices in your pocket, please. If the owner is really serious, he's going to have to get the copper mesh upgrade when he remodels... Make the whole place a Faraday cage then no signals get out. Problem solved!
Re:That's his right (Score:5, Informative)
In point of fact, the plural of MILF would actually be MILF.
Mothers....
Re:Glasses in real life (Score:5, Informative)
Re:That's his right (Score:3, Informative)
I have the absolute natural right to videotape anything my eye can behold, period.
Just don't act surprised if you are denied entry to certain places. Then your eye cannot see the same stuff as your implanted camera.
Society will teach you a lesson the hard way, I think. It's not the other way around because society is far larger than you. Walking into a bar and screaming "I have rights!1!" is one of many excellent ways to have your @ss kicked, hard. The trick is that the people inside the bar are not lawyers; they couldn't care less about your legal rights. But they care a lot about their own, intrinsic rights to be left alone. They will tolerate you and your natural eyes because that's the expected thing to do in public. (Even that has limits; try to stare at a girl, and soon her man will come and ask what is wrong with you.) But your eyes do not make a permanent record, and even if you become a witness the accuracy of your recollection can be questioned. Your camera is intruding because it makes that record, and no law will stop groups of like-minded people to forbid you to come into a privately owned place that posts their own rules of conduct.
Re:That's his right (Score:4, Informative)
For sure. There will be a lot of customers who feel similarly who will give that establishment more business. The two or three yuppies who decide to go elsewhere and pout about the restrictions will be minor compared to the 100 new customers who show up to cheer.