Satellite monitoring of shipping is driving increased maritime data manipulation
Ami Daniel · Ami Daniel, Windward // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Oct 16, 2014 · at 7:26
Ami Daniel, CEO of Windward, explains the paradox of satellite tracking: as total visibility increases, bad actors are increasingly incentivized to intentionally manipulate location data.
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“Nobody was looking at nobody before, and now everybody is looking at everybody all the time. And therefore, manipulation is on the rise.”
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