Do You Like Being Watched?

This is a quick political statement, on a blog that generally is not political (except for personal politics, which in retrospect overlaps seriously with larger politics nowadays).

We're hearing about those new wearable computer glasses, from Google, Google Glass, which will talk in your ear, show ratings and addresses and etc. on the glass ahead of you, as well as recording everything you see.  Erosblog had a nice discussion yesterday about the ramifications of this.  No one has anymore privacy and Google now has all your information to index, sort through, collate and track.

Google Glass, for this reason alone, will not be happening.  MiKandi, an app store for adults, started working with the potential of truly personal porn with a new app, which Google immediately banned.  The best amateur POV sex ever will not be created with the help of Glassware.

But that's okay.  Google has been pushing against adult uses for their products hard the last couple of years (see Erosblog, again, for various other topics, including what no longer appears in search results (such as the word "clitoris" or any NSFW Tumblrs) as well as the insistence on "real names" on Google + and no naked people (making the best use of "hang-outs" useless and broken)).

I understand, in a cynical way, why Google wouldn't want all manner of our floppy bits being indexed for their search, ad and social services.  People seem to have a casual concern for their privacy on the internet, not sure what impact it has.  If they have your email contacts, that's to be expected ("looks like your friend also likes 'Priceline'").

But if you discovered they were indexing your pussy pix, there'd be an uproar and 1000s of people switching to Bing.  If nothing else I guess they're hiding their evil under their increasingly transparent skirt.