Google Glass: Orwellian surveillance with fluffier branding

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New technology will make us all agents for Google. Nick Pickles, Director of Big Brother Watch, says the implications for privacy are profoundly worrying.
Google founder Sergey Brin says using a smartphone is 'emasculating'

Sergey Brin showing off Google Glass augmented reality spectacles Photo: AP

By Nick Pickles, 11:56AM GMT 19 Mar 2013

In the online world – for now, at least – it’s the advertisers that make the world go round. If you’re Google, they represent more than 90% of your revenue and without them you would cease to exist.

So how do you reconcile the fact that there is a finite amount of data to be gathered online with the need to expand your data collection to keep ahead of your competitors?

I've already read comments about people wearing these beibg banned from various places. What is your reaction?