Can Google Glass Help Lawyers and Law Enforcement Officers?

The photo accompanying this post shows me with Google Glass, a wearable computing device. UNC has a pair and I’m testing them for a couple days to help me think about whether such devices might be useful for us or for the government officials with whom we work. This post summarizes my initial impressions. What’s Google Glass? Wikipedia says that “Google Glass is a wearable computer with an optical head-mounted display. . . . Google Glass displays information in a smartphone-like hands-free format, that can communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands.” To be a bit more specific, Glass links with your smartphone by Bluetooth, and allows you to do things like take pictures, take videos, post them to social media, receive text messages, receive emails, and search the web, all without taking your phone out of your pocket. It also serves as a regular Bluetooth headset for handling phone calls and playing music. Navigation takes place by voice command and a small touchpad on the frame of the device. The display is essentially a tiny screen that is visible to your right eye. Uses for officers.  Several police departments are experimenting with Google Glass, as I noted in a previous post about Glass. It’s easy to see potential applications for officers, from recording interviews and traffic stops, to documenting crime scenes, to receiving real time information from other officers or from dispatch without having to pull out a phone or use a loud radio. This article quotes an [...]