The early unfavorable judgment of Google Glass — that it ’s forassholes , that it will run to adystopian Panopticon nightmare — is mostly well - set up . But what everyone has gloss over in their opening salvo is , I think , the most immediate and obvious problem Google Glass will precipitate : Once these things lay off being a rich - cat bangle and start actually pip the street , the rise in creepshots is pop off to be bad than any we ’ve ever seen before .
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You know creepshots . Those are the surreptitiously snapped photographs of woman - many of them very young women - made far-famed after becoming one of the most widely discourse and contested parts of Reddit , the internet ’s favorite free - for - all . For a while creepshots had their own subreddit on which man would gather to partake sneakily snap breasts and butt . There were women with their kinsfolk at zoos , and women unlax on beaches . One r / creepshots contributor was a gamy school teacher who would place picture of his students , sample verbal description : “ Hot Senior Girl in One of My Classes . ”
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finally the original “ Creepshots ” subredditwas banned , as was a aper subreddit called “ Creepsquad , ” and another emulator called “ Cshots . ” Alas , just as shutting down crackhouses does n’t stop people from smoke crack , creepshot sports fan have slinked off to other outlets to get their filling of pictures of cleaning woman photograph without their consent . Twitter now hasmultiple creepshots feeds , and the Tumblr“creepshots”tag is stinking with smartphone pictures of butts . Even Reddit is back to hosting a creepshots subreddit , albeit under the guise of being a blank for mode criticism called“CandidFashionPolice”(it ’s surely only coincidence that so many woman ’s outfits are photographed from behind , from the shank down ) .
Up until now , obtaining a creepshot has been a relatively simple try , but one not only without risk of infection . The omnipresent nature of smartphones and the direction the great unwashed constantly wage with them are developments that ensure scarcely anyone any longer set out mistrustful when someone comes near them holding a recording gadget — they’re plausibly just checking Facebook , right ? Still , there ’s only so long a somebody can harbour their iPhone at an awkward angle , and only so close they can get to you , before you realise that they ’re snap you and you put a stop to it .
This is where , in the correct hands , Google Glass has the potential to be one of the more devious firearm of technology yet created . Because Glass allow a person to snap and videotape whatever they ’re looking at , hand free , the potential for creepshots rocket . When in the incorrect person ’s possession , Google Glass could make it so virtually every interaction a man has throughout the day becomes a creepshot , from staring down a teller ’s top at breakfast , to leering at his coworker ’s cleavage , to glancing over at his daughter ’s instructor ’s ass after picking his Thomas Kyd up from school . Worse still , these women will have no idea they ’re being photographed for some dude ’s spank money box , because rather of a weirdy come at them hold up a sound , they ’ll just see a normal guy cable — their friend , their unconstipated client , their tennis partner — looking at them how they always do .
To listen men like Mark Hurst — Chief Executive of the tech - consulting agency Creative Good andGlass doomsayer - in - chief — state panic at the next - level eavesdropping abilities Google Glass affords is sensible to a degree , but they ’re mostly just flattering themselves . Perhaps a celebrity like George Clooney should shudder at the thought of how Glass will make his life even more scrutinized than it already is , but the average man just is n’t interesting enough , at least not in the manner that would find strangers on the metro desperate to record their every move .
The tangible victims of Google Glass are going to be women , who have long sufferedthe ogles of strange man . Glass , however , is going to supercharge those ogles , turn them into images that can last a lifetime on an unfamiliar person ’s computer , only to be passed around the creepshots forums that currently exist and ones that have yet to be birthed . hands are already taking advantage of women every sidereal day with their bulky smartphones . When the cameras are sitting snugly and indiscreetly on their faces , it will only get bad .
When I email Google to take about the close at hand explosion of creepshots in the wake of Glass , a spokesperson gave me this financial statement : “ It is still very early days for Glass , and we ask that as with other new technologies , such as cell phone , behaviors and social norms will prepare over time . ”
The statement is right , if only because a societal norm is a far battle cry from a societal good . When cellphone were first released , who could have expected that eventually they ’d be used to shoot secret photos of young women that men would then apportion on the internet and she-bop to ? I expect nothing less from Google Glass .
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