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P2P Spying
Install GPS in all digital cameras, tagging photo with exact coordinates for upload to Google Earth. | |
With Google StreetView, this is a moot point in the US. But for all the other not so friendly countries this would be great for spying.
Digital cameras preinstalled with a GPS chip could automatically tag each photo with the exact coordinates of the photo. Otherwise known as geotagging. On a macro
level, with millions of people uploading geotagged photos to Google Earth, the photos could be combined to recreate actual street-level imageryanywhere around the world. Microsoft has such a technology called Photosynth that will piece contiguous photos together. With millions of people uploading various pieces of the global puzzle, nobody gets in trouble - sort of like the decentralized nature of a P2P music sharing network.
Like i mentioned above, this is almost a moot point in the U.S. as Google StreetView is just about as dangerous as it gets. I think it is terrible for security. A terrorist can plan out an attack in gruesome detail without even visiting the site. There's a HUGE difference between street-level imagery and aerial shots. StreetView should be banned IMHO.
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Won't work in shopping malls, railway stations, airports... [-]. |
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Besides, the bad guys will simply hide in the nondescript, smelly, unphotogenic corners and doorways that no-one ever photographs. |
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I'm not sure if this is an [m-f-d] "Let's all" |
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//Google StreetView is just about as dangerous as it gets// You want to ban something because The Terrorists might find it handy? |
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I can plan a gruesome Terrorist attack using pen and paper, do we ban those things too? I heard you can use something called a camera - shhh! The terrorists are out there, reading this. Quick, ban the internet! |
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IM(not-so-H)O, the idea is fine, with the exception of the last paragraph, in which you are talking abject bollocks. |
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WIGTTISITM - Batman? ok it's photos instead of radar but still pretty similar. |
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Edit: ok actually it's not, but it is simply taking something that millions of people already have and giving it to everyone, then removing their privacy. |
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Anyway, this is already becoming pretty standard on phones (Nokias particularly, see Nokia Vine). |
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//Won't work in shopping malls// you can do rough geotagging using triangulation. My phone does not have GPS but it still tells me which area I'm in to within a couple of hundred metres. |
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I don't see it myself. A burglar or terrorist only has to walk around his target area with a mobile phone, pretending to talk, discreetly taking pictures, and he will have as much information as he would get from google streetview. |
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