When Do You Take Off Your Google Glasses?

Google Glasses will soon be available to the public, according to the company. Are we ready?
The wearable computer will let you search as you walk, navigate, record what you see and share it, translate and more. We haven't yet figured out which pictures to share on Facebook or how to make sure we don't tweet while drunk. Now we are going to have to figure out a whole new set of social rules.
Do you take off your Google Glasses in the bathroom, lest folks think you are recording? Is it acceptable to Google someone while you are speaking to them? Do you ask, "Mind if I post the conversation we just had online? I think our friends would love to comment on it".
On one hand, new technologies have always taken some adjustment. Jeff Jarvis writes that "The first serious discussion of a legal right to privacy in the United States did not come until 1890. The reason: the invention of the Kodak camera, which led to a similar moral panic about privacy, with The New York Times decrying “fiendish kodakers,” President Teddy Roosevelt outlawing kodaking in Washington parks, and legislators ready to require opt-in permission from anyone photographed in public. We negotiated our norms and cameras don’t scare us anymore. But now a new technology does."
This adjustment, however, takes time. We haven't yet developed norms to catch up with the many ways that technology and data both enhance and disrupt our lives. I am a responsible father if I check my nanny's driving record before letting my kids get in a car with her. But if I run background checks on the parents in our car pool, well that just seems odd - or does it? What are the rules for who I can text? If I have your cell number and would be comfortable calling, should I be comfortable texting? That circle seems a bit smaller, but what are the new social rules?
Behavior that violates social technology rules seems to be "creepy", for want of a more nuanced term. It's easy to blame Google or Facebook or the companies bringing us these technologies for the challenges society needs to now grapple with. But these advances are inevitable as science progresses. The access to knowledge these companies bring to the world is empowering individuals to challenge governments and bringing education to the impoverished. I guess we can put up with a bit of tension until we frame a new set of norms.
In the meantime, just do your best to not be creepy.

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