What does all this mean? It is going to be easier than ever for companies to take detailed pictures of your property. Google plans to add Skybox imagery to Google Maps. If that was not disturbing enough, Google paid $500 million for SkyBox Imaging, a company that provides real-time high resolution pictures. Learn How To Become Invisible In Today’s Surveillance State! Imagery taken is now for sale at DigitalGlobe’s website. We can identify pictures of a baseball diamond.” “We can actually tell you whether it’s a truck or an SUV or a regular car. DigitalGlobe is one of the satellite companies using the new technology. “You can actually definitely see (car) windshields,” DigitalGlobe’s Kumar Navulur told. That means they can use pictures of your property with far greater detail – potentially showing features like the color of your mailbox, objects sitting in your backyard, and even the types of plants growing in your garden. Last year the US Department of Commerce lifted restrictions that essentially allow companies like Google and Microsoft (which owns Bing) to show images to the world as small as 12 inches.

Our homes have been on Google for years, but the detail was limited to objects no larger than about 20 inches. Private companies like Google now have the legal right to use the kind of spy satellite technology once reserved for agencies like the NSA.

Google satellite picture of my house