Who loves Will Smith and Gene Hackman? I sure know I do, and when you put those two kooky fellows together you get a thrill ride of an adventure. Oh wait, sorry, "Enemy of the State" was released years ago, so you all already know that.
Well then, moving on to my point I suppose. We all know what happened in the movie. The Government was testing a tracking system using satelite surveilance and tapping into all kinds of different security cameras and phone taps and bla bla bla. Ultimately Will and Gene win by fooling the government and Will gets to bang his mad hot wife for the rest ofhis live and make more cute black babies to live in the Washington DC area. Thank goodness it's only a movie.
Well it used to be just a movie. Soon to be famed author JDM clued us all in last week to what Google Maps is doing, showing pictures of your house in the directions. I'm not going to tell you what he has to say, so you'll have to go read it yourself.
These pictures that they are showing of your house is from a bird's eye view. They are stock shots, and the only reason I know that is because the trees are all alive by my house (right now they are still a shade of grey that you would find on Skeletor's armor). Point being here though is they had to somehow take a picture of every house in America to be able to give directions like this.
I'm fairly confident in saying that they didn't fly aircraft and take tons of pictures that got developed at Wal-Mart and I'm pretty sure they didn't find the Tooth Fairy and mandate that she log her route via camcorder. No these images are taken through satelite observation.
Great, now an independent company has global satelite rights to be able to take pictures of anything they want to. Now I have a hard time believing that Google has made enough money to be able to afford a fleet of satelites which makes me wonder, what is the government doing?
Now I know, if you don't have anything to hide you have nothing to worry about. Whoopie. I don't want to be skinnydipping with my wife and have Uncle Sam along for the swim. I'll have 15 foot fences and no kids so no one will be able to see me, right? RIGHT!
I don't want my privacy invaded just because someone thinks something somewhere might have the possibility of happening.
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