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It is scarcely worthwhile to attempt remembering how many times the sun has looked down on the slaughter of the innocents.
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Babel Street, best known for its open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools for analyzing social media and the like, sells location data as part of a secret add-on service called “Locate X.” Venntel, a subsidiary of marketing data company Gravy Analytics, has sold raw location data to several different US agencies, including ICE, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the FBI. And broker X-Mode paid app developers around 3 cents per user per month for access to location data, then sold it directly to defense contractors.
Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police
Bennett Cyphers
When we think of streets in the context of how they are represented in a database, what often comes to mind is the humble street centerline. However, more often than not these databases are focused on routing for automobiles rather than on other types of multimodal infrastructure and width data that could inform what can fit. However, with digital twins of street right-of-ways, we have the opportunity to evaluate design changes in more iterative and scenario oriented ways. Some regions are already starting to develop HD Vector Maps of their infrastructure, such as Contra Costa County.
Digital Twins for Sustainable Transportation
Alta
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