Wearing Google Glass can be quite dangerous, especially if you're watching a movie. The hero of the story, which took place in Columbus, Ohio, was watching a movie with his Google Glass turned off, since he only needed them for the lenses, due to vision problems. While he was watching the movie Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit with interest, someone suddenly pulled him aside. He introduced himself as a Federal agent and told him that he was not under arrest, but that he should follow him for a "voluntary interview."
During the “voluntary interview,” our hero realized that he was being accused of piracy, as the Feds suspected that he was recording the film using Google Glass.
The interrogation might have continued even longer, if one of the Feds hadn’t had the idea to connect the glasses to a computer to view the files. When they found nothing but photos on his device, the FBI agents told him that it was all a misunderstanding. The owner of the AMC movie theater even returned the ticket price to our hero. According to Torrentfreak, the victim allegedly stated:
"They wanted to know who I was, where I live, where I work, how many computers I have at home, why I'm recording the film, where I'm going to give the recording and much, much more. The questions didn't stop, they asked them over and over and over again."
The agents were, of course, paranoid. Even though the Google Glass was turned off, the owner was not allowed to touch it for fear of “erasing the data.”
The case ended about 3.5 hours after the film began.
