alt Hacker News> panopticon N-1 (Google Map's auto recording of all phone GPS traces for marketing information)
I might be OOTL and misinterpreting this but a web search for "panopticon N-1" returns only this thread. Is there any more information on this?
> panopticon N-1 (Google Map's auto recording of all phone GPS traces for marketing information)
I might be OOTL and misinterpreting this but a web search for "panopticon N-1" returns only this thread. Is there any more information on this?
He's just numbering the various large surveillance networks (panopticons) sequentially with the variable N being the newest/most current one. N = Flock (~2025), N-1 = Maps' GPS data collection (~2015), maybe N-2 is cell phone triangulation via tower signal strength (~2005).