I once saw a movie called "The End of Violence." Simply put, it's about a satellite system that incorporates not only real-time surveillance, but the ability to kill anyone at will. Some technology never explained gives the user the ability to shoot someone, as with a gun, from the satellite. I thought the movie was fairly interesting but not too creepy as it was too far fetched to be real.

All of this is a hyperbolic lead in to a story about laying census data over Google Maps.

Now, we're a fair sight from the aforementioned scenario of shooting someone via satellite, but the ability to aggregate data so quickly and integrate it with a mapping tool shows that the technology available to John Q. Public is growing very very rapidly.

Privacy advocates are now often sniffed at. People think that if you have nothing to hide, you don't need to worry about this kind of thing. I think in the next few years, fewer people will be laughing.

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