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I have always hoped that someday Google Earth would just be live.
by state 11y ago
I have always hoped that someday Google Earth would just be live.
- cporios 11y agoThat day any notion of privacy will stop existing.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoUnless you, I don't know, go inside?
- sixothree 11y agoAnd never go outside?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoIts already assumed that there is little or no privacy in public spaces.
- maaku 11y agoIt shouldn't be.
- InclinedPlane 11y agoPrivacy is on a sliding scale. There are certain assumptions we rely on when we go out in public. Imagine, for example, some future where you were effectively under constant surveillance when in "public". Where your every action, every movement, every utterance was recorded, categorized, transcribed, data mined, and then put into a feed that anyone could subscribe to. That's what the complete absence of public privacy looks like, and it's not great.
- oldmanjay 11y agoSo imagine London?
- lsjroberts 11y agoYeah, living in London you have several cameras looking at you permanently. You can see a bunch of them via the TFL api as well.
- eridius 11y agoBut, AIUI, those cameras aren't networked together. They're all owned by different people. TV shows like Torchwood that show some agency tracking someone across the city using CCTV are showing something that can't possibly happen in real life, because there is no one centralized authority (or even handful of authorities) that have access to most of those cameras. Not to mention the cameras themselves are just video, and not particularly stellar quality at that. Of course, I could be wrong, maybe someone in London really can track someone across town using the CCTV cameras, but the above is what I understand from what other people have explained in the past.
- edoloughlin 11y agohttp://www.pss-1.com/ http://www.pss-1.com/
- vlasev 11y agoIt really depends on the resolution, doesn't it?
- chippy 11y agoMost of the high resolution "I can see my car from here" images are from aeroplanes.