As a public radio commentator once said, augmented reality has “been the Next Big Thing for a while now, although it never manages to become the Actual Current Big Thing.” In keeping with this Sisyphean observation, we did not (yet) see quite as much development in either AR technology or the law governing its use in[...]
5 Predictions for Augmented Reality Law in 2013 (and a Look Back at 2012)
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FTC Issues Best Practices for Facial Recognition Privacy
Wednesday, October 31, 2012 By Brian Wassom
On October 22, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission released a report entitled “Facing Facts: Best Practices for Common Uses of Facial Recognition Technologies”. The FTC has had its eye on this technology for a long time–at least since the workshop it held on the subject in December 2011–aware that it is being implemented by a[...]
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Augmented Reality, Political Groupthink, and Civil Society
Earlier this month, I wrote about one potential danger of immersive augmented reality–the potential for becoming addicted to it. The chances for dependency will increase, I argued, the more ubiquitous the technology becomes, and the more we gain the ability to customize the augmented displays that we see. Augmentation could then become narcissism and self-aggrandizement. There[...]
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