72% of Americans Won't Wear Google Glass Because of Privacy Worries

[onehandle]

Source: AD Week

It’s not Google Glass’ nerdy aesthetics, somewhat douchey reputation or lofty price tag that will prevent a whopping 72 percent of Americans from donning the headset of the future—it’s concerns about privacy and safety.

A new study from market research firm Toluna found that privacy worries are a major stumbling block for Google Glass, with two in five consumers citing concerns such as the potential for hackers to access private data, the ease with which others could record their actions without their knowledge and the potential for private actions to become public.

There is also the chance that federal agents will descend upon you if you wear the device in a movie theater.

“Google Glass is not yet available on the open market, although it is clear that a high proportion of individuals have concerns about the potential impact on their privacy," said Mark Simon, Toluna’s North American managing director. “This is something Google and other tech companies using the technology should address before the product can become mainstream.”

Read more: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/74-americans-wont-wear-google-glass-because-privacy-worries-156830

[Shivering Jemmy]

1. Enough people will wear them

[Recursion]

2. Huh. The privacy issue isn't for the wearer; it's just a phone.

It's the exact same privacy exposure any 3G Android device gives you. The privacy issue is for others -- it's more obvious that somebody is pointing the back of phone at you than that somebody with douchey glasses is looking at you.

[George II]

3. "There is also the chance that federal agents will descend upon you if you wear the device.....

....in a movie theater."

I read the article, and the linked article in it.

Sheesh, how paranoid can people get? Did you know that federal agents will "descend upon you" if you don't pay your income taxes, go AWOL, pass along counterfeit currency, threaten the President, etc.?

Have you looked under your bed recently? There may be federal agents under there, but in that case they won't "descend upon you", they'll "ASCEND upon you"!

[Bucky]

4. is the adjective "douchey" going mainstream?

Oh, English, why must you evolve in all the wrong directions?

[dballance]

10. I thought "douchey" was pretty funny /nt

[Skittles]

5. I would not speak to anyone wearing GG

nope - f*** that

[wtmusic]

6. agree

I might laugh at them, though.

[dballance]

11. Make sure you point at them while you laugh! /nt

[Bucky]

7. Here's another reason I won't wear them: I don't need the silly things.

Seriously, does anybody really want to go through life with little pop up screens telling them each tree they look at is an oak or a maple? I personally am a hypercurious information geek, but sometimes I just want to be alone with my thoughts (or relaxing without them) instead of being data bombarded constantly.

Oh, and yet another reason: within three years there's gonna be popup ads on them that you can't control. Count on it.

[George II]

8. Hmmmmmm.....

[Niceguy1]

9. wife/gf

Be pulling up history of where u be looking...I can hears the arguments now lol

[delrem]

12. Perhaps. But if the glasses were nondescript a different outcome might be likely.

[lovemydog]

13. Screw google glasses

and screw Da Man

[JohnnyRingo]

14. Why that's the very same reason I don't own a new Cadillac STS....

...they have Onstar that tracks me! It's also why I don't join the local country club, use a passport for international jet-setting, or have the latest iPhone.

Nah... It's because I don't have money to waste on something so stupid, but it sounds better if I say my life is so full of intrigue that I have privacy concerns.

Put me down with the other 72% of Americans who live in the shadows where the man won't know how close we are to bringing down their nefarious house of cards. hahaha

[jtuck004]

15. 72% of Americans see Big Government as greatest threat to their future

Maybe if they wear Google Glasses, they will see things differently...

Here I put the link here, even though it is a bit right-wing, because there was an interesting paragraph

...
"For big business, its historically high anxiety level among the populace came in 2002, when 38 percent of Americans saw it as a threat. That figure coincided with a series of corporate scandals that had struck major corporations, including the Enron fiasco and Tyco. Also at about that same time, Americans might have been less willing to choose government due to a rally in support for government institutions and officials following the 9/11 attacks.

But that euphoria has decidedly dissipated:

Americans were also more likely to view big business as a big threat during the recent recession, with more than three in 10 choosing it in 2008 and 2009, a time when many large corporations, including financial and automotive companies, failed or were in danger of failing without government intervention. But fewer Americans now view big business as a threat -- the current 21% is the lowest Gallup has measured since 1983.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/043423_gallup_poll_big_government_threats.html#ixzz2yHIazB3Y
...

That's too bad. The majority, likely schooled in this country, miss the threat big business is to their lives and freedom, and are instead concerned about a democratic institution that they have more direct influence over which is likely to better provide protection and security.

Instead they trust...banks.

Many NEED google glass.