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That’s a little scary. If those covered the globe, you could see and track anyone anytime they left their house. This gets dystopian fast. Imagine the ad target
by jtsiskin 5y ago
That’s a little scary. If those covered the globe, you could see and track anyone anytime they left their house. This gets dystopian fast. Imagine the ad targeting. Or “sorry, we notice you haven’t been to the gym all month, we have raised your insurance premiums 10%”
- Laforet 5y agoYou don't even need satellite to track people, the FBI has been getting really good results with a small fleet of Cessnas. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/fbi-surveillance-government-planes-cities https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/fbi-surveill... Not to mention you already carry a mobile phone with both Bluetooth and wifi turned on. You gym plus others knew you have not been there since February.
- avdlinde 5y ago50cm is not really good to identify a person. And it's not real time at all. You'd be better off calling the gyms directly.
- aembleton 5y agoGoogle already knows this if you have an Android phone.
- ska 5y agoThe temporal resolution isn't great, and you don't have much control over timing. Also 50cm is too coarse for much people-sized activity to be really identifying. So; great for seeing how a property has been developed over time, not so great for seeing who is going the gym or not.
- Cd00d 5y agoThese scans don't update with much frequency. That's like using Google Street View and noticing an unknown car in your driveway and assuming your partner is having an affair. Much more likely, the image is old, and that car belongs to the previous tenant.