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Privacy implications are non-tinfoil, rationally-numerous: which homes are abandoned/rarely visited, who's cheating on whom, which homes throw the most parties,
by BrailleHunting 10y ago
Privacy implications are non-tinfoil, rationally-numerous: which homes are abandoned/rarely visited, who's cheating on whom, which homes throw the most parties, parking lot monitoring and so on. Eventually (say a century, if we make it that far), it'll be impossible to go to Antarctica or even wash up on some atoll without literally watched, profiled, surveyed and advertised to.
- flippyhead 10y agoActually the search and rescue potential is interesting. Maybe there could be an international symbol anyone stranded can make out of rocks or in the sand or whatever that the eyes in the sky automatically alert the authorities to.
- god_bless_texas 10y agothis is an awesome idea
- Cyphase 10y agoInteresting idea, but it took me about 1.21 seconds to realize the potential for trolling this would have. Plus it would have to have enough entropy to not occur randomly. I'm imagining a QR code made out of coconut shells.
- notahacker 10y agoS.O.S. is the closest thing we have to that symbol. Perhaps we can let CAPTCHA-solving algorithms loose on all that image data... The bigger issue is that the areas where people are most likely to be stranded are those least frequently surveyed by high-resolution imaging satellites.
- planteen 10y agoAnd that lots of emergencies will be related to weather, when the terrain will be covered by clouds.
- eximius 10y agoVery interesting, but how do you dinstinguish from abuse or pranks? It can't be hard to make or those needing recue may not have the resources.
- BrailleHunting 10y agoPLBs/ELTs are much more scalable, at present. Someday, maybe AI will "watch" every m^3. Just don't voice any "treasonous" opinions verbally, in the future, because Palantir Panopticon Next will bring SWATings, tax audits and extra pat-downs to whomever is labelled a foe. Gosh, there might even be a viable, non-tinfoil, future business model for rental of soundproof/TEMPEST meeting rooms in large cities (LOL, I hope not.) Total, real-time monitoring would be a massively-sharp, double-edged sword that has the potential to invade privacy like never before... and I fear people won't fight or even question it.
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