Google May Remotely Deactivate Glass If You Sell It Or Lend To A Frien

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If you're lucky enough to buy Google Glass during the futuristic headset's beta program, you had better be happy with your purchase. Google's terms of sale for the Google Glass Explorer Edition forbids buyers from reselling, loaning, transferring, or just giving the device to any other person without Google's approval.

Google may even remotely deactivate the device if it finds its buyer is no longer in control of it. From the [url="http://www.google.com/glass/terms/"]terms of sale[/url]:

This provision is specific to Glass Explorer, an early adopter program in which developers and others selected by Google may pay $1,500 for the device. We've asked Google if a similar restriction will be placed on Glass when it becomes generally available, but the company declined to comment.

The terms of sale do indicate that Google will place at least some resale restrictions on Glass at general availability. The restrictions we quoted above came in a "Device Specific Addendum" that applies to the Glass Explorer Edition. In an earlier paragraph apparently referring to all versions of Glass, Google says, "You may not commercially resell any Device, but you may give the Device as a gift, unless otherwise set forth in the Device Specific Addendum." Thus, it sounds like people who buy the glasses at general availability later this year won't be forbidden from lending or giving the device away. Google also makes no mention of remotely deactivating the device except in the addendum specific to the Explorer edition (and in an unrelated section regarding lost devices).

As for how Google would know a device has been transferred, we presume one tipoff would be if it was switched from one Google user account to another.

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