Privacy advocates protested the “always on” but “undetectable” recording of people and places that eliminates a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy and/or anonymity. They warned of new risks as facial-recognition software is applied to these new data streams and predicted that technologies like Glass would fundamentally alter how people behave in public. By May 2013, a congressional privacy caucus asked CEO Larry Page for assurances on privacy safeguards for Glass, even as a Google conference was held to coach developers on creating apps for the new device. In April 2014 Pew Research announced that 53 percent of Americans thought that smart wearables were “a change for the worse,” including 59 percent of American women.

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