By Keerthi Chandrashekar / Keerthi@latinospost.com (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Apr 30, 2013 08:41 AM EDT
Tags Google Glass, google, Glass

Google Glass has been drumming up some major public interest after becoming available to thousands of public testers via the Explorers program, and as the device enters our everyday world, privacy issues are on top of everybody's worries, everybody but one avid Glass user.

Robert Scoble, a technical evangelist known for his "Scobleizer" blog, has been singing praises of Google's augmented eyewear for quite some time now, and recently released his two-week review.

"Most of the privacy concerns I had before coming to Germany just didn't show up. I was shocked by how few negative reactions I got (only one, where an audience member said he wouldn't talk to me with them on)," Scoble wrote. "Funny, someone asked me to try them in a bathroom (I had them aimed up at that time and refused)."

Scoble's comments come off the heels of Google's own Eric Schmidt, who has consented that Glass represents a new type of device with a new type of connectivity that society will have to learn to integrate properly.

"The fact of the matter is we'll have to develop some new social etiquette. It's obviously not appropriate to wear these glasses in situations where recording is not correct, and indeed you already have this problem already with phones," Schmidt said in an interview with the BBC.

While Scoble might be dogmatically on Glass's side at the moment, some institutions such as casinos and strip clubs have already voiced their distaste for another possibly-invasive recording device. Many are saying they will ban use of it outright.

Google Glass is expected to release to the public near the end of 2013, or at the beginning of 2014.

Scoble may be right, and the impact of Glass could simply be another digital repercussion we all grow used to. Still, it's a bit hard to take such an evangelist as a good indicator of what normal people will feel, especially one who's been known to tweet:

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