Stop the Cyborgs: The anti-Google Glass movement

Mar. 21, 2013 (5:11 pm) By:

Stop the Cyborgs

With every new technology comes those who believe that the advance is going to do more harm than good. Amidst the very real privacy conversation surrounding the camera features in Google Glass, a website has been created to educate citizens about the potential dangers associated with allowing this technology to flourish. The group adds a bit of absurdity to their intent by calling themselves Stop the Cyborgs.

Google Glass raises some interesting privacy concerns. The tech is whisper quiet and the bone conduction method of delivering audio makes it so only you can hear when something is happening. Unless you’re in a dark room, it’s never totally clear when it’s actually on and in use because of how the projection prism catches light. Furthermore, the camera has no shutter sound and the video recording function can be activated with very little in the way of obvious gestures. Basically, if you wanted to discretely record someone doing something with Glass, it’s easy to do so. In fact, with Hangouts, you can even broadcast something to the whole internet if you so chose.

It’s not like Glass is the only piece of technology on the planet to do so, but the recent hype surrounding the project has earned it the focal point of groups like Stop the Cyborgs.

Stop the Cyborgs

Their website begs you to give it a close look just to make sure its not a parody, poking fun at recent events. When decades-old establishments, including a certain well-trafficked dive bar, choose to ban a piece of technology from their premises before it is even officially priced and announced, you expect there to be others to follow for attention. Stop the Cyborgs is active, growing, and resolute in their opinion that Google is up to no good with Glass.

The documentation on the site takes a slight detour into the paranoid, explaining that there’s no way to know when the camera or microphone are being activated, and that these things could happen with or without the wearers knowledge or consent. Like any piece of technology, it would be fairly trivial to detect Glass misbehaving in such a way, but lets not get bogged down with things like facts for this conversation.

If you agree with Stop the Cyborgs, their website offers quite a bit to help you keep your business and home free from pesky Glass wearers. High resolution signs are available to those who visit the website, each making it clear that wearable technology is not welcomed on the premises. There’s also several t-shirt designs, so you can stage protests in places where you think Glass will be especially prevalent. The materials on the website are designed to be easily printed and shared, and there’s links to reach out to the leaders of your country and ask them to better restrict these wearable computers.

It’s worth reminding everyone reading this that Glass isn’t a retail available product yet. It’s not even available to developers, and Google has repeatedly said that the retail version won’t be available until well after the developer kits are available. This group is protesting a product that only exists in pre-production, without having used it themselves or knowing how exactly it will work when it is available. As is their right, however, they choose to fear this product instead of learning more about it.

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