If you have used them services its mapping Google (Google Maps) and its Bing, you will know that they offer satellite floor plans which are quite impressive. So you can zoom in on the whole world, up to a point though. The point that allows analysis. It looks like that will soon change as the US government loosened regulations that limited high-resolution images to mapping services. So soon we will have even more impressive floor plans from the satellite.
How can it be done? A young man satellite, called Worldview-3, will begin sending information in the coming days. The satellite cameras have the ability to take pictures in very high resolution. This means that we will be able to see even the mailboxes with Google or Bing maps.
According to Gizmodo, the satellite is owned by DigitalGlobe, and Google and Bing are already customers of the company. The cameras will monitor from a height of 383 miles above the earth and send back detailed pictures. We can't know yet if this is a threat to our privacy. Considering that high-resolution mapping services will likely display faces as well, privacy teams will likely be busy.
