Cops Look to Google Glass For Surveillance
You didn't need Google Glass to see this coming
A few months ago, an officer for the Byron Police Department in Georgia made a routine traffic stop equipped with an unusual piece of technology: Google Glass.
The wearable computer allowed the officer to record everything he was seeing for future reference, and because it was also linked to the department's video system, it let his bosses back at the police station monitor how the traffic stop was going in real time.
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The average US citizen, today, won't care one whit about this. As long as they can text on a phone and watch the NFL game, that's about the depth of their intellect.
Land of the free and home of the brave? What a laugh line that has become.