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04-08-2008, 05:14 PM
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| Privacy Fears Threaten Satellite Program
Quote: | You dont suppose these people havent heard of google maps? How can anyone suspect their privacy is at stake from high resolution imagry? | Free Preview - WSJ.com
WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security's domestic satellite surveillance system is running into fresh opposition from Congress, which is threatening to shut down the program if the department doesn't more thoroughly address concerns over protecting privacy.
The satellite program, known as the National Applications Office, is designed to provide federal, state and local officials with extensive access to spy satellite imagery to assist with emergency response and other domestic security needs.
Lawmakers said the Department of Homeland Security hasn't created legal safeguards to ensure that the office won't be used for domestic spying. They also are asking for assurance that it is ...
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04-08-2008, 07:42 PM
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If this fails it will be another example of the comfort of the few outweighing the lives of the many.
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04-08-2008, 09:01 PM
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Country: | Typical government ignorance, and idiocy.Why doesn't Homeland Security just use Google maps and save some money?
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04-09-2008, 06:20 AM
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| Probably because googlemap is not in real time.
Besides, in our world the individual privacy is nearly zero: we can be tracked via plastic money, cell phones, computer use, grocery list, email scan and in many other ways.
Better we realize that today this is the real world and live with it or decide to become hermits...
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04-09-2008, 07:09 AM
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Country: | If it's for assisting emergency services and security needs, it doesn't have to be real time, unless you are dealing with VIP motorcades and the like. If they plan on mapping the entire country that way, I doubt they'll have real time data all the time anyway.
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04-09-2008, 07:41 AM
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| I thought it was a reat time need, like 'there is an emergency in that place and I switch to satellite image to get info on what's going on'
If it is has no real time monitoring capability, how can privacy be seriously impacted? A detailed aerial pic of my house is normally available to everybody at the County geographic info system site, for the parcels, land lots etc. view.
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04-09-2008, 07:53 AM
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#7 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | I see what you are saying now.
If it was a real time emergency that needed an instant response, I think privacy would be the last concern. Number one is to get the injured treated and securing the location. If people are more concerned with their privacy than their health, I gotta wonder...
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04-09-2008, 11:37 AM
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| ... i strongly suspect that people is more concerned of their privacy than to the health of the OTHERS....
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04-09-2008, 11:58 AM
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