Satellites Used to Track Black Friday Mall Traffic

[SecularMotion]

Source: Hot Hardware

Those satellites in space don't just take spy pictures. On this Black Friday 2010, they are actually taking pictures of you, and your rush to Black Friday deals.

The research is being done to see what consumer demand this year means for retail stocks. The trend, so far, has been favorable.

The companies involved in this are Remote Sensing Metrics and Digital Globe. Remote Sensing Metrics is a Chicago-based consulting firm that analyzes the satellite imagery. In turn, it purchases those images from Colorado-based company Digital Globe, which operates its own satellites.



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[JDPriestly]

1. So, we have the money to do all this, but no money for Social Security or Medicare.

Where are our values?

[msongs]

2. the values of your president and congress are more war and more war. not MY values at all nt

[patrice]

7. That's what t/he/y inherited. Please give us a hypothetical scnario for how

t/he/y are to change that, FUNDAMENTALLY change that, without an absolutely indisputable political majority amongst the people of this country, or how they might begin, in a step by step wise manner, to acquire that kind of majority.

[LiberalFighter]

3. The last sentence in the post.

In turn, it purchases those images from Colorado-based company Digital Globe, which operates its own satellites.

[elleng]

4. These are private satellites!

[onethatcares]

5. and they're used to track us

which will be private information and up for bid.

I wonder what the resolution is.

I wonder who is gonna pay for these things when they fall out of the sky.

[petronius]

8. If they're buying the panchromatic (B&W) images the resolution will be 18-24",

depending on which satellite it is. Not enough to identify a person or a specific vehicle...

[patrice]

6. It is possible that actuarials have it figured out: how many cars going to which malls, how many

people capable of buying $400.00 purses, how many cruises sold on which cruise-lines it takes relative to how many elders assessed as what type of care risk, relative to how many children with which type of learning disabilities "our" social equity systems will bear before they "break" and we have riots in the streets.

[bemildred]

9. Boy. That is so stupid on so many levels I just don't know where to start. nt

[Jeffersons Ghost]

10. at least there's a higher power...

There's no law against corporations owning satellites, as long as they subscribe to strict government regulations.

If this information impresses you, read about the agency that really controls ALL aspects of the outer reaches of our atmosphere:

https://www1.nga.mil/Pages/Default.aspx

[sarcasmo]

11. What else are they using it for? Total surveillance grid, scary shit.

[demosincebirth]

12. So what? Another infringment of our liberties?

[Incitatus]

13. Why is all that crap necessary? Can't the actual sales tell them what they need to know? nt