On 1/15/13 12:45 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
In the end I concluded that, as more and more public data is put on
line and more and more sophisticated data mining techniques are
deployed, there will come a time when a category of cyber-stalking
might have to be identified which involves using */public/* data to
track and aggregate in detail the movements of a particular individual.
It will likely be Google, Amazon, or Facebook, or some other
well-organized and well-equipped firm doing the tracking -- just one of
thousands of image processing jobs queued-up on their compute farms
around the world. Google has their own birds already
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoEye-1). Note that these satellites
have more capabilities than is published on the `public' maps.google.com.
Marcus
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