family disputes like ' who started the argument ' and other inane, absurd suggestions.
Take the Chrome listening and home video monitoring into consideration and then look a little further. With Google ' s acquisition of satellite provider Skybox in 2014, they will soon be able to view any object larger than one foot long- around the world.
Here ' s what Christopher Mims of The Wall Street Journal wrote about the deal:
" And here ' s what Skybox could allow Google to accomplish: Within a couple of years, when you want to know whether you left your porch light on or if your teenager borrowed the car you forbade her to drive, you might check Google Maps."
" That ' s because by 2016 or so, Skybox will be able to take full images of the Earth twice a day, at a resolution that until last week was illegal to sell commercially— all with just a half-dozen satellites. By the time its entire fleet of 24 satellites has launched in 2018, Skybox will be imaging the entire Earth at a resolution sufficient to capture, for example, real-time video of cars driving down the highway. And it will be doing it three times a day."
And do you remember Google Glass, the head-mounted wearable computer with optical display? " It is a perfect stalker ' s tool," said John Simpson, privacy project director of Consumer Watchdog. " It ' s difficult to see how they solve that."
Are you sure Google isn ' t doing any evil now?
p. s. my computer froze three time while writing this post! Hmmm....
Robert Smallwood is a keynote speaker, consultant, trainer, and author of 7 books, including the leading text on IG, Information Governance: Concepts, Strategies, and Best Practices( Wiley, 2014). He is a frequent blogger on IG topics, and is Managing Director of the Institute for IG at IMERGE Consulting, at www. IGTraining. com. He teaches comprehensive courses on IG and E- records management for corporate and public sector clients.
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" A potential downside to the Skybox acquisition is that it could represent a new level of privacy invasion for
everyday people." 7