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Google Glass wearing cinemagoer suspected of recording movie gets questioned

Google Glass wearing cinemagoer suspected of recording movie gets questioned

By Associated Press | Updated: 22 January 2014 16:34 IST

Federal authorities say they questioned an Ohio man they suspected of recording a movie in a theater with his Google Glass computer-in-eyeglass device.

The government says no action was taken after the man confirmed the Google Glass was also a pair of prescription glasses with the recording function inactive.

The man was watching "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" at an AMC theatre in Columbus on Saturday. Authorities did not identify him.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Khaalid Walls says the man voluntarily answered questions from officers with ICE Homeland Security Investigations.

AMC says it contacted authorities after identifying someone wearing a recording device. Spokesman Ryan Noonan says the company takes movie theft seriously.

Both ICE, which investigates piracy and counterfeiting, and the Motion Picture Association of America, were involved.

Google Glass was embroiled in another alleged law-breaking incident recently, in the case of a California woman being given a traffic ticket for driving whilst wearing the eyewear.

(Also see: California woman defends her use of Google Glass while driving)

A San Diego traffic court however, threw out a citation, with commissioner John Blair ruling that Cecilia Abadie was not guilty because she had been cited under a code that requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the device was in operation, which the officer did not provide.

(Also see: California woman who drove with Google Glass has citation dismissed by court)

However, Blair did find that the language of the code specifically bars the operation of a video or TV screen or similar device on the front of a vehicle while it is moving - a provision that Blair said could be broad enough to apply to Google Glass.

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