Re: Privacy vs Open Public Data

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on Jan 15, 2013; 8:23pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Privacy-vs-Open-Public-Data-tp7581246p7581248.html

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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