Google in privacy row over glasses that can monitor eye movements - Telegraph.co.uk

Nick Pickles of Big Brother Watch said: "It's shocking to think that people who will be buying George Glass may end up having their own eyeballs monitored by Google. This is the kind of monitoring you would expect in a science fiction film. It's Minority Report for profit." The revelations came just hours after Google in the US admitted it use computer programmes to read emails sent by Gmail users to help advertisers better target their campaigns. In a filing that forms part of a defence to a class action lawsuit, Google said: "All users of email must necessarily expect that their emails will be subject to automated processing." People automatically opt-in when they sign up for Gmail's terms and conditions. In June, Google chief Larry Page told investors that privacy fears about its internet glasses will fade as people incorporate the eyewear into their everyday lives. He said: "People worry about all sorts of things that actually, when we use the product, it is not that big a concern." One internet technology specialist, Venda, today said it expected the glasses to be used by shoppers across the high street as soon as 2016. Privacy campaigners claim corporates around the world have finally realised they can make a small fortune by selling details about their customers. The Daily Telegraph in June revealed that Barclays plans to sell anonymised data on the transactions carried out by its 13 million current and savings account customers from October. At the weekend it emerged two companies had been using tiny sensors on recycling bins in the City of London to track the smartphones of passers-by and measure footfall. The City of London Corporation asked the companies to halt the trial, which began in May. The first phase had already been completed. Which? has called for a crackdown in the laws governing the trade in personal data, insisting companies should be forced to go back to customers every six months to ask if they were still happy for their details to be sold to third parties. via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHFBk2SaYOhhNtHaMCz5SPN92zSiw&url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10245396/Google-in-privacy-row-over-glasses-that-can-monitor-eye-movements.html

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