Space is like the 'Wild West,' with trillions to be made from surveillance and communications (via CNBCMakeIt)
"I'll put it this way: People are very surprised with the level of knowledge that a company like Google might have. If [companies] start incorporating space-based information and linking that with stuff going on the ground, that's going to blow people's minds, big time," he told Recode Decode. Google did not respond to CNBC Make It's requests for comment.
At least one company involved in space monitoring says privacy is not an issue for its purposes. Jah points to Planet Labs, which has more thanthat can monitor changes in things like roads, forests and agriculture.
Still, the information that can be garnered from space "should be alarming to people," Jah tells CNBC Make It. He says there needs to be international conversations and regulation of space surveillance technology, and he is building a. The objects Jah is tracking include not only satellites but an estimated half a million pieces of "space junk," which is debris from old spacecraft. Currently, there isn't a uniform map of what's in space and where each object is located, Jah said.
The other area of space services that will be a primary source of revenue, according to Jah, is communications.are in the satellite game, and "now they all want to rush to send thousands of satellites up there to provide global internet," Jah told Recode Decode.
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