Ask HN: Google Glass and finding missing people

3 pointsby doubleO13 yıl önce3 comments

I've recently been interested in Google Glass and wondering whether it'll be widely adopted or not. Besides it's obvious applications, do you think it might be useful for finding kidnapped or missing individuals? This could be in form of an app that has access to some database that constantly scans in the background. It'll be up to the user to decide whether or not to turn it on as they go about their daily activities.How feasible or ridiculous is that?

Thanks.

2 comments

caffeinewriter13 yıl önce

It doesn't seem too far off from distributed volunteer computing like BOINC or Folding@Home. It'd be interesting, but I'm sure people would gripe about privacy.

melkisch13 yıl önce

The same could apply to convicted people. As Caffeinewriter says, privacy issues are huge.

caffeinewriter13 yıl önce

If you give a man a match, he may start a fire, cook food, and feed the hungry, or he may burn down every house in a five mile radius. Everyone will point the finger at what might happen. So as cool as this is, I bet it could lead to some serious legal issues.