CONFIRMED: Man Interrogated By FBI For Wearing Prescription Google Glass At The Movies Read more: h

[LiberalArkie]

http://www.businessinsider.com/man-interrogated-by-fbi-for-wearing-prescription-google-glass-at-the-movies-2014-1?op=1



A man who went to the movies with his wife in Columbus, Ohio, was subjected to a terrifying hour-long interrogation by the FBI because employees at the AMC theater saw him wearing Google Glass.
They apparently thought he might be illegally taping the film and didn't believe him when he tried to explain that the glasses were prescription, and weren't even switched on.

The incident ought to make Glass wearers think twice about when and where they don their smart spectacles. (It also shows how feeble law enforcement's knowledge of the new device is, too — it took them an hour before they figured out how to download the device's content.)


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The officer asking the questions identified himself as "Bob Hope" of the "movie association" — presumably the MPAA — and gave him four free passes to another movie at AMC. He didn't apologize: "All he said was AMC called him, and he called the FBI ... I would have been fine with 'I’m sorry this happened, please accept our apologies.' Four free passes just infuriated me."

[NuclearDem]

1. Go Google Glasses even have the storage capacity to record two hour videos?

[legcramp]

12. More than enough, 16 GIG internal and syncs with Google Cloud.

eom

[apnu]

3. Over here where the story broke, the glass guy had custom lens fitted to the glasses on his own.

Claims the whole thing, Google Glass and lenses cost him $1,500.00

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2014/01/20/amc-movie-theater-calls-fbi-to-arrest-a-google-glass-user/

[randome]

4. "It took them an hour before they figured out..."

It probably took the user at least that long. Calling that 'feeble' sounds like techno-smarm.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

[apnu]

5. The guy has the right to be stupid and wear such a device in a theater.

Which entitles him to harassment by AMC for being an idiot and wearing a device known to take images.

However, it does not entitle him to have his rights trampled by the Feds and other cops.

[msanthrope]

9. I'm gonna bet a judge would find probable cause existed to detain and question

this person.

[frazzled]

6. Since they're not for sale yet, he must be an "Explorer"

But then again, Wikipedia (who knows) says this:

The Explorer Edition cannot be used by people who wear prescription glasses, but Google has confirmed that Glass will eventually work with frames and lenses that match the wearer's prescription; the glasses will be modular and therefore possibly attachable to normal prescription glasses.

I don't know if he was able to somehow get lenses fitted, but this whole story sounds a touch weird. But then, it's published in Business Insider, which imo, is a pretty dubious source much of the time.

[msanthrope]

7. It wasn't the FBI--- It was ICE...sloppy reporting from your source....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/01/21/this-google-glass-user-went-to-the-movies-then-he-got-interrogated-for-about-four-hours/

[Warren Stupidity]

8. "am I free to go?" no. "I request that my lawyer be present".

If you are not being detained, leave. If you are being detained, demand a lawyer before answering any questions.

[msanthrope]

10. Repeat it like a parrot on crack......

"Am I being detained?" "Am I being detained?" No? Then leave. Yes? You want to assert your Fourth Amendment rights that you do not consent to a search of your person or your property, but will comply when ordered. Ask if you are being ordered.

Assert your Fifth Amendment rights to remain silent and to refrain from talking to the police.

Assert your Sixth Amendment rights to counsel. Keep asserting your rights, politely.

[CFLDem]

11. Boy is it going to be a culture shock when these things go mainstream.

As a bonus shock, when they are mainstream they will be less conspicuous so no one will really know when they're around one.

Brave. New. World.😃