All the top countries have spy satellites in orbit. There are also commercial satellites, who share their info with ????. Each nation has a national security interest in keeping their sea asset positions and patterns secret. They have an inverted relationship with other countries- they want their assets hidden, but their enemies' assets public.
So any one of these countries or corporations could come forward and say "we're making public on a time delay, all satellite imagery we've collected of the open ocean (or blur all structures under a certain size, to preserve the privacy of tiny boat owners). Then the public could follow all cargo and military ships from all countries in basically real-time.
It would be like having an open-source Satellite Sentinel Project, that could focus on things other than just the narratives promoted by the satellite owners (e.g. extracting natural resources from Africa under the pretext of stopping civil war in Sudan).
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doubleherpes ago
All the top countries have spy satellites in orbit. There are also commercial satellites, who share their info with ????. Each nation has a national security interest in keeping their sea asset positions and patterns secret. They have an inverted relationship with other countries- they want their assets hidden, but their enemies' assets public.
So any one of these countries or corporations could come forward and say "we're making public on a time delay, all satellite imagery we've collected of the open ocean (or blur all structures under a certain size, to preserve the privacy of tiny boat owners). Then the public could follow all cargo and military ships from all countries in basically real-time.
It would be like having an open-source Satellite Sentinel Project, that could focus on things other than just the narratives promoted by the satellite owners (e.g. extracting natural resources from Africa under the pretext of stopping civil war in Sudan).