Posted on 06/10/2012 8:33:18 PM PDT by george76
Software giants will use military-grade cameras to take powerful satellite images
Spy planes able to photograph sunbathers in their back gardens are being deployed by Google and Apple.
The U.S. technology giants are racing to produce aerial maps so detailed they can show up objects just four inches wide.
But campaigners say the technology is a sinister development that brings the surveillance society a step closer.
Google admits it has already sent planes over cities while Apple has acquired a firm using spy-in-the-sky technology that has been tested on at least 20 locations, including London.
Apple’s military-grade cameras are understood to be so powerful they could potentially see into homes through skylights and windows. The technology is similar to that used by intelligence agencies in identifying terrorist targets in Afghanistan.
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Beware the spy in the sky: After those Street View snoopers, Google and Apple use planes that can film you sunbathing in your back garden
An I understand that governments are also looking at buying drones to supervise the skies of our cities and spy on our neighborhoods.
Bwahahaha...what has been seen, can’t be unseen, and this over 50 woman likes to skinny dip in her pool. They’ll get what they deserve :)
Google’s been spying for years but APPLE ? What’s in it for them?
Don’t make me buy a PC Apple !
“I understand that governments are also looking at buying drones to supervise the skies of our cities and spy on our neighborhoods.”
Yup, that, too.
I stopped using Google long ago. There are other search engines.
Time to invest in camo netting for my compund. While I think it might be cool, I don’t know about the mrs. (Isn’t it always described as a compound? And why is that?)
Judas Priest saw it coming 30 years ago
Electric Eye - Judas Priest
Up here in space
I’m looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think you’ve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I’m watching all the time
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Always in focus
You can’t feel my stare
I zoom into you
You don’t know I’m there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
Theres nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye
Hall and Oates did too.
Write a program that randomly searches google.
For example: it would search “jogging”, open a link in a new tab and close it. Then 2 minutes later search “beanbag” and do the same. Then 35 seconds later search “penny”, and so on. If everyone does that then google can’t be sure what we are really searching.
Something like that.
Just more proof that all these big computer/internet companies are own and operated by the government.
Just think about the things that we DON'T know about yet.
SMH and a big SHUDDER...
Your post rememinded me of this search engine which protects your privacy:
Google drones!
Wonder if I will get a SWAT team at the house my giving the finger to them?
Gust a general comment targeted at no one in particular:
Google? Apple? This worries you? A year ago a school IT dept was nailed remotely activating laptop cams in student laptops. A school... let the implication sink in.
Now ponder the ‘stunning’ revelation that our military has equipment loaded with Chinese back doored microcoded chips. Let that sink in.
Now ponder that every piece of electronic gear you have that is linked to the net is filled with China-made circuts/CPUs. Let that sink in.
Now think of all the smart grid tech. The camera equipped tablets/phones/TVs et all. Your cars and their cellular connectivity. Let that sink in.
Folks, we have been under constant surveillance for over a decade. By our own govt and by the govt’s of others. There is no such thing as privacy, security or anything else. Your store bought programs, and many Chinese made freebies are not secure, they too are backdoored. Your personal info has been ‘public’ for a while now and your sense of security a false one.
We went past 1984 at warp speed. This isn’t conspiracy ranting, this is all freely available info. What do you think all those govt/Silicon Valley talks after 9/11 were about anyway? “Safe” start pages? Please. Who runs them? Who owns them?
Does anyone seriously believe that random search scripts can fool the algorithms of a NSA Cray array? SERIOUSLY?
Time to face facts. Privacy is long gone. Show me a ‘law’ on privacy that trumps a law on “National Security” (nebulous is that can be. Show me a judge that will deny the NSA/FBI/CIA in the interest of ‘national security”. They do not exist.
It’s the way it is now. I don’t like it, and I can’t do anything about it. Nor can anyone. It’s a done deal.
well, I need to replace the plywood I use over the windows during hurricanes so now I have a use for it.
big sign laying in my backyard will read.
“Kiss a squirrels furry little butt”
or something like that :D
So papparazi laws against flying over a wedding of someone famous are constitutional but a private (foreign owned) company flying a drone (that may not be FAA approved) over homes is okay?
Something ain’t kosher.
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