With any new technology there is the potential for misuse and Google Glass is particularly problematic when it comes to privacy concerns. For many people, the prospect of being filmed by someone from their glasses make them uneasy, having their conversations logged and their face searched through facial recognition are nerve-racking. This is why many places such gentlemen's clubs and bars have announced preemptively the banning of Google Glass all together due to privacy concerns.

In response, Google has added an indicator to show that someone is filming through the device, which helps to ease some people's fears that the device will be used as a perving mechanism.