New satellite network watches everything, and everyone on Earth in real time

> For the first time ever the entire world is being tracked, monitored and observed in real time, that includes every movement and car journey you make, every city, every field, every expanse of ocean – everything

This patently alarmist conspiracy bullshit. Why is this dross on HN?

I know several of the founders and early employees of Planet (previously Planet Labs, previously Cosmogia).

Planet is not tracking, monitoring or observing the Earth in real time.

I shall have to commit my crime in cloudy weather then.

What planet is doing is certainly impressive, but this article is inacurrate.

> well as the newer 11.8 inch scale and track and take photos of items as small as laptops from space Planet, for now at least has the lead.

You barely can spot a human on 30cm/pixel. We barely can get automatic human detection on 10cm/pixel. I would guess the cover photo is somewhere between 1-5cm per pixel and was likely collected by the drone.

> For the first time every square inch of every landmass, all 58 million square miles of it, as well as a good chunk of the oceans, will be tracked, monitored and observed in real time

This could be true if by real-time they mean "at least once a month" or maybe "once a year". Imagine large forest - there are barely any use cases for regular monitoring more frequent than once a week. Imagine how much data it would generate.

The site is loading very slow, so it'll probably be down soon. I archived it while it was up: https://archive.fo/h3fBP

I thought Planet only offers 3-5m resolution?

An yet, MH370 still to be found. Baffling.