{"id":43090,"date":"2014-06-17T10:13:40","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/17\/the-eyes-in-the-sky-are-getting-better-vision.html"},"modified":"2014-06-17T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T22:07:14","slug":"the-eyes-in-the-sky-are-getting-better-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/17\/the-eyes-in-the-sky-are-getting-better-vision.html","title":{"rendered":"The Eyes in the Sky are getting better vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Net-net, the enabling of 33cm resolution images vs 50cm resolution is probably a good thing. Mapping and observation has a lot of valuable applications, and it&#39;s not like they can turn around and do a CSI-style &quot;digital enhancement&quot; to see what that book is you&#39;re reading. And it&#39;s not like US (et al?) spy satellites can&#39;t drill down a lot deeper.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the incremental increase (as a side benefit of more private company access, more frequency, and more uses being found) in overhead observation <i>will<\/i> have some privacy ramifications &#8212; ones we will probably just have to live with, but ones we should consider and be aware of.\ufeff<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-27868703'>Sharper satellite images now allowed<\/a><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/AdJfxvShzVP' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net-net, the enabling of 33cm resolution images vs 50cm resolution is probably a good thing. Mapping and observation has a lot of valuable applications, and it&#39;s not like they can turn around and do a CSI-style &quot;digital enhancement&quot; to see what that book is you&#39;re reading. And it&#39;s not like US (et al?) spy satellites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/17\/the-eyes-in-the-sky-are-getting-better-vision.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Eyes in the Sky are getting better vision&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,20,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-hi-tech","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27235,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/facebook-vs-the-employers.html","url_meta":{"origin":43090,"position":0},"title":"Facebook vs. the Employers","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Mar-12 12:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm pleased to see FB warning employers not to ask for Facebook passwords. 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