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