For decades, privacy experts have been wary of snooping from space.
Now, quite suddenly, analysts say, a startup is building a new class of satellite whose cameras would, for the first time, do just that.
“We’re acutely aware of the privacy implications,” Topher Haddad, head of Albedo Space, the company making the new satellites, said in an interview.
Albedo, Mr. Haddad added, was nonetheless taking administrative steps to address a wide range of privacy concerns.
But what makes the overhead surveillance potentially scary, experts say, is its ability to invade areas once seen as intrinsically off limits.
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