US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
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Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#2I don't like this. You can already see a lot of detail on these satellite photos. This is a huge breach of privacy. (Not that a 50cm lower limit isn't a breach of privacy.)
Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#3I don't like this. You can already see a lot of detail on these satellite photos. This is a huge breach of privacy. (Not that a 50cm lower limit isn't a breach of privacy.)
Do you worry about people flying planes over your house, looking over your fence, etc?
Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#4I don't like this. You can already see a lot of detail on these satellite photos. This is a huge breach of privacy. (Not that a 50cm lower limit isn't a breach of privacy.)
Do you worry about people flying planes over your house, looking over your fence, etc?
It isn't unreasonable to be afraid of something becoming easy to the point of negligible, correlation of personal data across multiple databases as a result of mass data collection comes to mind.
Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#5I don't like this. You can already see a lot of detail on these satellite photos. This is a huge breach of privacy. (Not that a 50cm lower limit isn't a breach of privacy.)
At some point you will just have to realize that this illusion of privacy you have is just that... an illusion.
Privacy exists in small pockets, and only in places that you control access to. Aside from that, you might as well consider it public.
Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#6I don't like this. What is the business of a government in regulating the resolution of whatever form of imagery???
If it can be seen from the sky, or from the street, it's public. Planes, satellites, drones, whatever - you should be free to take pics and sell them if you want.
Fortunately, digital camera didn't exist where such kind of laws had been passed, or there would have been similar stupid restrictions (imagine google streetview with n-times 640x480 pics crafted together, or worse - a law restricting the resolution of the reconstructed google streetview you can view on your screen!)
Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#7I don't like this. You can already see a lot of detail on these satellite photos. This is a huge breach of privacy. (Not that a 50cm lower limit isn't a breach of privacy.)
At some point you will just have to realize that this illusion of privacy you have is just that... an illusion. Privacy exists in small pockets, and only in places that you control access to. Aside from that, you might as well consider it public.
Thanks to drones and satellites, privacy no longer exists in private yards, even those with high fences lined with trees.
Thanks to infrared photography, structure-penetrating radar, cell phones, etc., privacy no longer exists indoors either.
This is not right.
Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#8I don't like this. What is the business of a government in regulating the resolution of whatever form of imagery??? If it can be seen from the sky, or from the street, it's public. Planes, satellites, drones, whatever - you should be free to take pics and sell them if you want. Fortunately, digital camera didn't exist where such kind of laws had been passed, or there would have been similar stupid restrictions (imagi…
It was more the military side than the civilian, so digital cameras and the like weren't even a consideration[1]. The military was afraid of others having access to the images or knowing how good the images were they were getting. It seems like those concerns have lessened and thus the new rules.
1) digital is just catching up with film for resolution these days.
Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#9I don't like this. What is the business of a government in regulating the resolution of whatever form of imagery??? If it can be seen from the sky, or from the street, it's public. Planes, satellites, drones, whatever - you should be free to take pics and sell them if you want. Fortunately, digital camera didn't exist where such kind of laws had been passed, or there would have been similar stupid restrictions (imagi…
As a US-based company, DigitalGlobe launch and operate their satellites at the whim of Federal regulators. With the advances in privatized spaceflight, I see this field as ripe for disruption from Chinese or Russian based competition.
Re: US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
At some point you will just have to realize that this illusion of privacy you have is just that... an illusion. Privacy exists in small pockets, and only in places that you control access to. Aside from that, you might as well consider it public.
Thanks to drones and satellites, privacy no longer exists in private yards, even those with high fences lined with trees. Thanks to infrared photography, structure-penetrating radar, cell phones, etc., privacy no longer exists indoors either. This is not right.
>This is not right.
This is reality though. Our expectations of privacy must adjust to changes in technology.