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[Australia] is shifting its longitude and latitude to fix a discrepancy with global satellite navigation systems. Government body Geoscience Australia is updating the Geocentric Datum of Australia, the country's national coordinate system, to bring it in line with international data.
The reason Australia is slightly out of whack with global systems is that the country moves about 7 centimetres (2.75 inches) per year due to the shifting of tectonic plates.
Since 1994, when the data was last recorded, that's added up to a misalignment of about a metre and a half.
Source: CNet
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Australia Moved 1.5 Metres, Updating its Location for Self-Driving Cars
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @03:10AM
Source? The car having to obtain the information to function does not mean its being collected or stored anywhere. Just as healthy skepticism is vastly different from denialism, a healthy concern for one's privacy and security is vastly different from paranoia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @04:35AM
In all likelihood, that's exactly what will happen. Many online services (e.g. Facebook, Google) that you have to give information to sell that data to various other companies and use it for advertising and lots of proprietary software spies on its users (lots of 'free' phone apps do this, as well as big players like Windows). Then there is just plain maliciousness, like the Sony rootkits, the removal of OtherOS, and digital restrictions management in general. There are plenty [stallman.org] of [stallman.org] examples [stallman.org] of companies abusing users and handing data to the government, so many that no one could remember them all.
Or are you living in a different world where the government isn't speaking out against encryption, the government isn't conducting mass surveillance on the populace and trying to undermine computer security in countless ways, and companies don't actively abuse their users? Because while these things don't 100% prove what the future of self-driving cars will be, it is certainly reasonable to say that they will, in all likelihood, abuse users in various ways. If this turns out to be true, I won't be shocked at all. If it turns out to be false, I'll be pleasantly surprised. We live in a culture that doesn't really care much about computer security, software freedom, or privacy, so this is simply the result of that apathy.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Sunday July 31 2016, @05:28AM
The car having to obtain the information to function does not mean its being collected or stored anywhere. Just as healthy skepticism is vastly different from denialism, a healthy concern for one's privacy and security is vastly different from paranoia.
(1) If information CAN be collected and stored somewhere it WILL be.
(2) Given the history of how governments and businesses collect and misuse information, healthy skepticism and a healthy concern for one's privacy and security are now indistinguishable from denialism and paranoia.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 31 2016, @10:11AM
Two more bullet points for your list...
(3) How cheap it is to store data these days. How much $/Exabyte? Not much these days. And getting cheaper all the time.
(4) How cost effective to scan/correlate data. In the old days, people had to sift through file cabinets. Today, its done by script. Cost to mine damned near anything from Exabytes of data almost nil. Google makes a business model of simply giving you the computer time to search, correlate, and deliver to you a list - just for the asking.
Now, if anyone thought it was being paranoid about having papers pile up in front of your house, and your lawn left unmowed, announcing to everyone driving by that no one is at home, now imagine scripts running that let anyone who has the slightest passing interest in on your doings.
If nothing else, this oughta cut down on prostitution, cuz your whereabouts is gonna be open to anyone who asks "the system", and you gonna have some 'splainin' to do.
No more "late nights at the office" covering up a night on the town.
One quick correlation and one can find out exactly where anyone was, who else was there, and did anyone buy anything.
Or that innocent little lie you told your boss about a previous family engagement... when he asks you next Monday morning how it went, when its obvious as hell he already knows you did not go to see your wife's sick mother... you only wanted to take your son fishing and were sick and tired of ignoring your family for other people's problems that could not wait till working hours.
Nothing to hide, eh?
No, I did nothing wrong, but there are a lot of details to my life I had just as soon not make public.
I would like to make a deal with the system, being they are ignoring my "copyright claims" on the details of *my* life, I will ignore their "copyright claims" to their stuff as well.