Apple and Google Maps: Will eye-in-the-sky ‘spy planes’ place our privacy at risk?

Apple has kicked Google Maps to the curb and is using “military grade-cameras” and “spy planes” which will provide iOS 6 “flyover” mapping. Privacy is at risk, according to Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch, and it’s a “commercial ‘race to the bottom’ The new mapping solution showed turn-by-turn directions and ETA functionality “using anonymous real-time crowdsourced data right from iOS users, to keep traffic fresh and up-to-date””]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2222565/apple-and-google-maps–will-eye-in-the-sky–spy-planes–place-our-privacy-at-risk-.html