It worries me how much power Google has over our lives, and now, if it became evil, it'd be able to have complete video access to one's life via Glass. I dunno, it just makes me uneasy. It's hard for me to trust a company with a self-driving car, my email, what I search, my browser, my social network, my phone, my operating system, my files (Drive), my entire life (Glass, as stated above). Imagine if they started selling real estate! Not that much of a stretch considering all the areas they've gotten into. I really wouldn't mind having a corporation controlling those separate areas, but for one company to have control over all of that?
Google does not and can't have complete video to access one's life via glass. Glass can only record when a user tells it to record. You may not be referring to it potentially always recording video, but I read articles where people are fear-mongering such things enough to make me angry. There's lots of misinformation being spread regarding privacy with glass out there.
They're borderline monopoly. The only reason why they haven't yet, is because of US Commercial policies. At this, they're even expanding into INTERNET SERVICE with Google Fiber. This is just a rumor, but you know what they supposedly want to do? They could easily buy out a cell company, such as T-Mobile or Sprint. They'd have cheap yet ridiculously high quality phones that run on THEIR cheap but amazing service. On your PC or on your $200 Chromebook, you're using THEIR amazingly cheap internet service! In this near future, the mindset is "You don't use all Google products? What's wrong with you!" And they're so innovative, so fresh, so cool, so practical.. who wouldn't use them? But then what? What if they turn sour? I know it's unlikely to happen, considering that as a company, it's not one entity. It's not one big fat guy, who decided on the best way to make money. Google is a company. It has employees, who are nearly all down to earth. When I graduate, it's where I want to work. These employees use Google most of the time themselves! They use Galaxy Nexuses, like me. You know Google's privacy policies, user friendliness, customer oriented mind-set won't decrease anytime soon because the actual WORKERS wouldn't let that happen. I'm sure those who know are already sick of hearing it, but I've been to Google once and this is what I found: everyone's happy! I visit Microsoft all the time, or at least I used to. My parents have tons of family friends who work there. Yeah, the Redmond Microsoft headquarters is a nice campus. Yeah you get free drinks.. but the atmosphere is clearly frustration. Creativity in it's most oppressive form. At Google, things just felt more colorful! The free gourmet buffet every lunch must help too. Everyone was laughing, smiling. These are normal people, who won't let the company go to shit. Or at least, I hope they won't.
How bright, shiny and full of smiles a company can present itself doesn't make me any less cautious of them, as I am of all organizations that hold immense power. Let's not have delusions about what they do, which is sell parking spaces in your brain to the highest bidder.