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Pretty sure that’s how it will end up being, eventually, in the same way GoogleMaps had to buckle.

I can see the smartest countries providing a standard webservice: you-private-company-using-geolocation will have to query a certain area, and get back a shape that you must blur or otherwise suppress. Access to the service should be heavily logged / throttled to avoid mass-scanning, and obviously “customers” will be vetted and forced to sign onerous NDAs. You don’t like the service constraints? Tough shit, here is a law that says use it or be fucked.



How about a "dont record where you shouldn't" clause in TOS... probably there already is one...




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