Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whole Planet Daily

Re:Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whol... by BrailleHunting on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @06:50AM (#13651337)

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.

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Re:Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whol... by flippyhead on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:31AM (#13652220)

Actually 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.

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Re:Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whol... by BrailleHunting on Friday February 17, 2017 @02:04AM (#13666505)

PLBs/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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Re:Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whol... by notahacker on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:39AM (#13652698)

S.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.

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Re:Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whol... by planteen on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:48PM (#13655660)

And that lots of emergencies will be related to weather, when the terrain will be covered by clouds.

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Re:Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whol... by Cyphase on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:11AM (#13652488)

Interesting 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.

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Re:Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whol... by eximius on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @06:44PM (#13656620)

Very 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.

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Re:Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whol... by god_bless_texas on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @10:05AM (#13652447)

this is an awesome idea

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