Google’s New All-Seeing Satellites Have Huge Potential—For Good and Evil

Google’s New All-Seeing Satellites Have Huge Potential—For Good and Evil
The reach of Google’s online empire is hard to overstate. …Now, with the $500 million purchase of Skybox, a startup that shoots high-res photos and video with low-cost satellites, Google can extend its reach far across the offline world. …Skybox can take photos from 500 miles up with a sub-one-meter resolution of the ground below. That isn’t likely to sit well with privacy activists who already don’t trust Google.