Google Glass? Are you kidding me?

We're hearing more and more about wearable tech. Robert Hansen has provided a lighthearted - and long - list of where it won't be welcome

I made this list to help people understand why surveillance at all times is not acceptable. There are plenty of times throughout the day that it's totally unacceptable, rude or otherwise dangerous to be photographing anything with a device on your head.

Besides looking idiotic, Google Glass solves a problem almost no one has, and ultimately introduces a lot of additional issues in the process of just making the person wearing it look dorky.

Here is a list of some of the places and situations it is inappropriate to wear Google Glass.

These are places or scenarios where it will be assumed you are either a pervert or an idiot, and are likely to get yourself beaten up, arrested, fired, shunned, or have your Google Glass (or yourself) broken.

*In the shower, especially a communal one at a campsite or prison

*Any place where a police officer may decide that it is illegal or simply suspicious behaviour – which, honestly, seems like pretty much any place sometimes these days

*In bed with someone you just met, unless of course that's his or her thing

*In a confessional, or hearing a confession

*At a urinal, especially a trough-style urinal at a football game

*At the cinema or at a concert

*Just checking in to make sure everything is OK during your daughter's pyjama party

*While buying condoms, or anything else where it is assumed one wouldn't want photographic evidence

*While committing any crime at all, or speeding

*In a changing room

*At a strip club or burlesque show

*While scuba diving

*While playing or working on a casino floor

*While operating heavy machinery, automobiles (especially during any sort of Irish road racing), aeroplanes, front-end loaders, excavators – the list goes on

*At bars, pubs and night clubs

*Court rooms – unless specifically authorised to do so

*While taking a test of just about any kind

*A large number of US states, including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, South Dakota and Utah. Unless people give consent or recognise that they are under surveillance

*On a plane during takeoff or landing

*In a sauna

*Clothing-optional beaches and resorts

*During many televised sporting events

*In many museums or galleries

*At the United Nations

*At most hospitals (especially while giving or having an obstetric or gynaecological checkup, an STD exam or a proctology checkup)

*While doing interviews for plastic surgery

*During a psychiatric or therapy session

*While selling women's shoes

*While giving pedicures

*Pretty much anywhere involving children

*While performing any job with top-secret clearance

*During an MMA fight or while boxing

*While giving a massage

*While in a locker room

Oh yeah – and while at my house.

Robert Hansen is technical evangelist at WhiteHat Security