Members of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus are the latest to join the many people raising concerns about Google Glass in a letter to Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page in which they request answers to eight pointed questions.

Since the technology was introduced, Google Glass has been incredibly controversial, even leading former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff to speak out against the technology.

Many venues have preemptively banned Glass including a Seattle bar, casinos and strip clubs in Las Vegas and the entire state of West Virginia is trying to ban wearing Glass while driving, according to the Independent.

“Respect our customers privacy as we’d expect them to respect yours,” stated Seattle’s Five Point Café, becoming the first to ban Glass, according to Reuters. Some movie theaters may also join the trend.

Yet Google figures have been quick to dismiss any and all concerns.

“Criticisms are inevitably from people who are afraid of change or who have not figured out that there will be an adaptation of society to it,” Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said during a talk at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in April.

Never mind the fact that Glass can easily be hacked and turned into a pervasive surveillance device. That’s just being afraid of change.

One of the questions posed by members of Congress in their letter concerned facial recognition capabilities.

Google claims that no facial recognition technology is built into the device and there are no plans to implement it “unless we have strong privacy protections in place.”

However, most readers are likely aware of the fact that the technology could indeed be rolled out silently or indeed built into the device without Google admitting it.

After all, we’re talking about the same company that knowingly stole private data from unsecured wireless networks with their Street View cars.

Even though Google was clearly guilty of massive invasions of privacy on a scale previously unimaginable, the FCC cleared the company of wrongdoing and contradicted a federal judge in doing so.

In March of this year, a report indicated that Google was going to pay $7 million to 30 states to settle an investigation into their Wi-Fi spying but such a sum for Google is nothing.

When Google can get out of an antitrust probe and investigations into theft of highly personal data with less than a slap on the wrist, why would we trust them to be honest about Glass?

Privacy and Google simply don’t mix. Google and the U.S. government, however, mix quite well.

The members of Congress point to Google’s horrific privacy track record and ask, “we would like to know how Google plans to prevent Google Glass from unintentionally collecting data about the user/non-user without consent?”

Some of the many other important questions asked include:

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