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More Than Meets The Eye With New Google Contact Lenses, Alec Wheatley Aug 2014

More Than Meets The Eye With New Google Contact Lenses, Alec Wheatley

GGU Law Review Blog

Technology informs privacy. This is the lesson we relearn every time a company puts out a new product that changes the way we interact with the world and each other. The recent disclosure of Google’s filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office last year for a contact-embedded “image capture component” (read: camera) caused a flurry of commentary by privacy hawks and tech fans alike.

This raises the question: if the contacts are invisible to others so that it’s impossible to know if someone is wearing them, how can you know if they are being used to record you …