NYC Considers Google Glass For Restaurant Inspections 104
New submitter TchrBabe writes: "NYC is now considering equipping its Health Department inspectors with Google Glass to provide a record of restaurant inspections. 'A yearlong pilot program would require 10 percent of the 160 health inspectors to wear video devices — including, possibly, the much-maligned Google goggles — under legislation to be proposed Thursday. "I think it would limit the abuses on both sides of the table, and it would allow for a more objective view by the judge on the violations that have been cited," said bill sponsor Vincent Ignizio.'"
Evidence they're looking at GG itself? (Score:5, Informative)
NYC eyes Google Glass for restaurant inspections
including, possibly, the much-maligned Google goggles
So if the city wanted to use Google Glass
I don't see any evidence that NYC is actually looking at Google Glass. For all the information in the article, they may have already discounted it. Perhaps they never even considered it.
In other words, made-up shit.
Re:Added benefit (Score:4, Informative)
"Consumption" was an old name for tuberculosis. TB is normally transferred through the air, not food contamination.
From the CDC [cdc.gov]:
"Before the invention and acceptance of pasteurization, raw milk was a common source of the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, ..."