While outsiders may intentionally attempt to access information or try to figure out someone's identity or location from intercepting communications, such efforts will account for a minority of security threats.
In essence, the system will enable the government to determine someone's identity instantly something that's taken days in the past.
Today, however, another company called Orbeus is launching its own face and scene detection API platform ReKognition for Glass, which sidesteps the privacy issues at hand, as it's unable to detect someone's identity.
"It's a felony when you take someone's identity, and we think that needs to be out there when you talk about the supposed injustices against undocumented workers," said Susan Tully of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, an organizer of the counterprotest.
When you think of it in terms of someone's identity of one's self, it's different.
"Changing someone's identity is a last resort, because it's such a complicated, cumbersome process," said Karen Martin, a psychologist who is the Retreat's clinical director.
And is a tattoo part of someone's identity, inseparable from their persona once it's committed to skin?
These days, with the Internet, it's even more difficult to completely erase someone's identity.
"Upstream Colour began by wondering what would happen if you stripped away someone's identity," Carruth says.
Frankly, I'd rather see a movie where James Franco steals someone's identity.
They are fascinating, in part, because they capture a moment in which someone's identity may be changing.
