AMC Theaters Allegedly Calls FBI to Interrogate a Google Glass Wearer 1034
An anonymous reader writes "A Google Glass user was interrogated without legal counsel for a couple of hours under suspicion that he may have been recording a film in the AMC movie theater. Although the matter could have been cleared in minutes, federal agents insisted on interrogating the user for hours. So long for our constitutional freedoms."
Hours of being detained that could have been avoided if they had just searched his devices (which he repeatedly suggested they do): "Eventually, after a long time somebody came with a laptop and an USB cable at which point he told me it was my last chance to come clean. I repeated for the hundredth time there is nothing to come clean about and this is a big misunderstanding so the FBI guy finally connected my Glass to the computer, downloaded all my personal photos and started going though them one by one (although they are dated and it was obvious there was nothing on my Glass that was from the time period they accused me of recording). Then they went through my phone, and 5 minutes later they concluded I had done nothing wrong." Update: 01/21 21:41 GMT by U L : The Columbus Dispatch confirmed the story with the Department of Homeland Security. The ICE and not the FBI detained the Glass wearer, and there happened to be an MPAA task force at the theater that night, who then escalated the incident.
Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole! (Score:1, Funny)
Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole!
Just trying to avoid a potential safety issue. (Score:5, Funny)
He should have just explained that he wanted to read his texts without being shot.
Re:Just trying to avoid a potential safety issue. (Score:5, Funny)
I think this is what you call getting Scroogled
Re:Lesson from this story...don't be a glass hole! (Score:2, Funny)
Perhaps if he was able to scrape together $1500 for Google Glass (presumably more since he's got prescription lenses in it), he could have found $50 for a pair of cheap prescription glasses to use in places where Glass either isn't feasible or allowed....
http://www.zennioptical.com/lo... [zennioptical.com]
If it's his only pair of prescription lenses, then he's an idiot. If he owns other prescription lenses but decided to bring the wearable video camera to a movie theater anyway, then he's at best a troll and at worse, still an idiot.