It’s not truly “Google’s own,” but the internet giant will get exclusive use of the images for mapping purposes, according to Reuters:
GeoEye Inc said it successfully launched into space on Saturday its new GeoEye-1 satellite, which will provide the U.S. government, Google Earth users and others the highest-resolution commercial color satellite imagery on the market.
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Posted September 8, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: google, satellite, surveillance, tinfoil hats. Be the first one.
Aaron Swartz’s Bubble City, Chapter 8:
He sent the report to his superior and wandered off for a bit to dwell on the power he had as a faceless person deep inside an office park in Mountain View to know every detail of another person’s life. He wondered what it would be like if he came [...]
Posted March 27, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: absolute power, conspiracy theory, google, hegemony, real ultimate power, surveillance, tinfoil hats. One Comment.
