Google Glass, alarms privacy The U.S. Congress asked for clarification - Quotidiano.net

Into Letter of Congress in Mountain View to see if the new glasses connected to the internet may violate the right to privacy, for example with facial recognition

Google I / O 2013: the futuristic glasses Glass (AP)

Into Rome, May 18, 2013 – The U.S. Congress has asked Google to clarify if his new and upcoming Glass (the glasses connected to the Internet that will allow you to overlay images virtual to physical with what is called “augmented reality”) may violate the right to privacy of Americans . The bipartisan Commission on privacy in fact want to see clearly and wrote a letter to Larry Page , Number 1 Big G, asking eight questions.

Into The Congress recalls the problems of Google for collected data without authorization through Street View in recent years , and asks how we are gearing up to prevent history repeating itself with Glass. In addition, it asks whether it is true that the glasses will be equipped with facial recognition to obtain information about who you look, whether they will be able to store own data, whether it is in the plans a redefini tion of privacy policies.

official responses should be received by June 14 , but the Moscone Center in San Francisco, where he is conducting the Conference of the developers, the company tries to reassure. “We have repeatedly stated that not introduce facial recognition in our services unless there is a valid solution for the protection of privacy,” said Steve Lee, product manager .

Into The privacy was a major concern raised by the gadget, not yet on the market – the glasses should arrive within the year – and just in the hands of developers. These days, just by the Conference of the developers, came the first applications for the Google Glass from the social network.

The Facebook app for now lets you shoot and share photos. Ditto for Tumblr , which offer more in visualizing the flow of news or a selection of it. Google+ app will incorporate the ability to start the Hangout. Twitter , however, will download the gadget most of its functions, the sending of tweets – including photographs – to direct messages and notifications of the same and twittering. Confirmed the application of Evernote support to the lists, and on the editorial plan, presented those of CNN and Elle.

Into class=”icon” Share more

Follow the news on Facebook

Follow the news of Quotidiano.Net on Facebook