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Seems to me the scandal is that US military bases allowed people in protected areas to upload GPS traces of their activities, more so than strava showing these
by nxpnsv 6y ago
Seems to me the scandal is that US military bases allowed people in protected areas to upload GPS traces of their activities, more so than strava showing these along with millions of other traces in their activity maps...
- notkaiho 6y agoWell, yes, but also that Strava takes this hands-off approach like they're not responsible for the data they collate
- nelaboras 6y agoWhat should strava do? Ask each country in the world which areas they want censored?(nuclear power plants, parliament buildings, boarding schools for rich kids, ...?)
- toyg 6y agoPretty sure that’s how it will end up being, eventually, in the same way GoogleMaps had to buckle. I can see the smartest countries providing a standard webservice: you-private-company-using-geolocation will have to query a certain area, and get back a shape that you must blur or otherwise suppress. Access to the service should be heavily logged / throttled to avoid mass-scanning, and obviously “customers” will be vetted and forced to sign onerous NDAs. You don’t like the service constraints? Tough shit, here is a law that says use it or be fucked.
- nxpnsv 6y agoHow about a "dont record where you shouldn't" clause in TOS... probably there already is one...
- notkaiho 6y agoOr, you know, they could not make it public by default :)
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoOr that soldiers aren't trained well enough in SECOPS that they won't give away base details just to track their own fitness. What's the punishment for having GPS tracking devices on a military base? Bet they all love their free USB drives sent from a friend they forgot they had, too. Hope they're epoxying the USB connections on their Win95 nuclear submarines.