🤔 💰 Glassing with Permission Only: Next-Generation Binocular Will Make Users Pay to View Private Land
Using mapping and GPS software, a new optics company hopes to reduce trespassing and poaching by obscuring private property

A consortium of digital mapping firms, A.I. developers, and traditional optics companies today unveiled a new binocular that prevents users from scouting private land unless they subscribe to what they call a “viewshed permission” app. The Private Land Observation Platform (PLOP) allows users to glass public land without constraints. However, private property is veiled behind a digital haze unless users subscribe to mapping software that “unlocks” viewscapes with an annual subscription.

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