2. Our traditional bogeyman for privacy was Big Brother and its
physical manifestation - close circuit TV.
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3. Little Sister is socially active, curious, sufficiently tech-
savvy, growing up in the land of “free”,
getting on with life and creating a digital exhaust that is
there for the taking.
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4. As a product that is both on-your-face and in-your-face,
Google Glass is primed to become a lightening rod for a wider
discussion around privacy, what constitutes acceptable
behaviour in public spaces and the cities we want to live in.
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5. “Google policy is to get right up to the
creepy line and not cross it.”
Eric Schmidt, October 2010
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7. Can “creepy” be placed on a line?
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8. What kind of creepy experiences have the Google
executive team personally experienced?
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9. What kind of creepy experiences have the Google Glass
team personally experienced?
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10. Is decision making around what is or isn’t creepy
influenced by life experiences and in particular creepy
life experiences?
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12. Do we normalise creepy?
How?
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13. Do we normalise creepy?
How?
Over what time frame?
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14. Do we normalise creepy?
How?
Over what time frame?
Why?
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15. Do we normalise creepy?
How?
Over what time frame?
Why?
What happens when normalisation doesn’t occur?
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16. What personal data can a commercial company obtain
with a person’s consent?
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17. What personal data can a commercial company obtain
with a person’s consent?
How is that data is stored?
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18. What personal data can a commercial company obtain
with a person’s consent?
How is that data is stored?
How can it be used?
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19. What personal data can a commercial company obtain
with a person’s consent?
How is that data is stored?
How can it be used?
Just how informed is “informed consent?”
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20. Does Google know how its going to use the data when it
collects it?
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21. Does Google know how its going to use the data when it
collects it?
How much of the value of that data is revealed through
correlating it with other sources of (yet unknown) data?
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22. What are the social norms where you live?
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23. Who has the right to push the boundaries of those
social norms?
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24. Who has the right to push the boundaries of those
social norms?
Which norms?
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25. Who has the right to push the boundaries of those
social norms?
Which norms?
Acceptable to whom?
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26. Is it your social obligation as a non-Google employee to
help Google executives understand creepy?
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27. Is it your social obligation as a non-Google employee to
help Google employees understand creepy?
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28. Which Google executives do you think will best benefit
from this understanding?
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29. Which Google executives do you think will best benefit
from this understanding?
Where do they live?
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30. Which Google employees do you think will best benefit
from this understanding?
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31. Which Google employees do you think will best benefit
from this understanding?
Where do they live?
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32. Who are their friends?
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33. Who are their friends?
Where do they live?
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34. Where is their family today?
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35. Does asking these questions make you feel creepy?
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36. Does asking these questions make you feel creepy?
Why?
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37. Does a Google employee asking these questions about
you, your friends and family make you feel creepy?
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38. Does a Google employee asking these questions about
you, your friends and family make you feel creepy?
Why?
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39. Does Google having this information, in real time,
about you, your friends, your family make you feel
creepy?
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40. Does Google having this information, in real time,
about you, your friends, your family make you feel
creepy?
Why not?
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41. What are the properties of different kinds of creepy?
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42. How do you rationalise what you do or don’t find creepy?
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43. How do you rationalise what you do or don’t find creepy?
Is it smart to rationalise creepy?
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44. To what extent are Glass feeds monitored and by whom?
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45. To what extent are Glass feeds monitored and by whom?
What is being monitored?
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46. To what extent are Glass feeds monitored and by whom?
What is being monitored?
What mechanisms are in place to react to events being monitored?
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47. To what extent are Glass feeds monitored and by whom?
What is being monitored?
What mechanisms are in place to react to events being monitored?
How timely are these mechanisms?
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48. To what extent are Glass feeds monitored and by whom?
What is being monitored?
What mechanisms are in place to react to events being monitored?
How timely are these mechanisms?
Do these mechanisms scale?
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49. To what extent are Glass feeds monitored and by whom?
What is being monitored?
What mechanisms are in place to react to events being monitored?
How timely are these mechanisms?
Do these mechanisms scale?
How else might these mechanisms be used?
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50. When will be the first life saved through Glass?
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51. When will be the first life saved through Glass?
How will the story unfold?
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52. When will be the first life saved through Glass?
How will the story unfold?
What tools will the storytellers have at their disposal?
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53. When will be the first highly publicised porn movie shot
with Glass?
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54. When will be the first rape experienced through Glass?
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55. When will be the first rape experienced through Glass?
As a perpetrator?
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56. When will be the first rape experienced through Glass?
As a perpetrator?
As a victim?
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57. When will be the first murder attributed to Glass?
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58. When will be the first murder attributed to Glass?
As a perpetrator?
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59. When will be the first murder attributed to Glass?
As a perpetrator?
As a victim?
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60. When will be the first suicide be experienced
through Glass?
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61. When will be the first suicide be experienced
through Glass?
Will it be available live?
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62. When will be the first suicide be experienced
through Glass?
Will it be available live?
Will someone make revenue by sharing it?
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63. How many lives are ended or saved thru mobile phone
use each year?
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64. What are the norms around showing the gore from
violent crime in your country?
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65. What are the norms around showing the gore from
violent crime in other countries?
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67. Which companies advocate a free and open internet?
How is this free and open internet influenced by local
social norms?
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68. How long does it take for creepy experiences to fade?
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69. How long does it take for creepy experiences to fade?
Do they fade?
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70. How long does it take for creepy experiences to fade?
Do they fade?
What are the consequences of them not fading?
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71. How do humans cope with creepy experiences?
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72. When and how do we reflect upon on what was creepy?
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73. What tools do we reflect upon or recall creepy?
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75. What is their motivation today?
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76. What is their motivation today?
Tomorrow?
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77. What creepy things from 100 years ago are still creepy?
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78. What creepy things from 10 years ago are still creepy?
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79. What creepy things from 1 year ago are still creepy?
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80. What creepy things from 1 year ago are still creepy?
And to whom?
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81. Which creepy things from years gone by are now
recognised as art forms in their own right?
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82. Which creepy things from years gone by are now part of
your everyday life?
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83.
84. “There is but one remedy for the amateur photographer.
Put a brick through his camera whenever you suspect he
has taken you unawares.”
85. “There is but one remedy for the amateur photographer.
Put a brick through his camera whenever you suspect he
has taken you unawares.”
Amateur Photographer magazine, 1885
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