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Google Urged to Drop Images

Posted by Zonk on from the you-don't-need-to-know-this dept.

Nqdiddles writes "News.com.au is reporting that the head of Australia's nuclear energy agency has called on Google to censor images of the country's only nuclear reactor. While Dr. Smith admits the image is about two years out of date, he also says he doesn't 'want to provide any easy assistance to anyone who wants to interfere with the site.' Citing the precedent of the blocks of colour over the White House and Treasury buildings, he's critical of their own security, adding 'there's a small area near the middle of the site which is quite secure, but the bulk of our site isn't all that secure' and is easily visible from the road and commercial airline flights. Google has defended the technology, noting the images were six to 18 months old and not detailed enough to zoom in on people."

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  1. GEarth has nothing to do with it by yellowbkpk · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google is just licensing the satellite image data from DigitalGlobe and other vendors. It's the same data that Microsoft, TerraServer, NASA, etc. have and is publicly available for everyone with a stamp. My library even has CDs full of (outdated) full-res satellite images of the world.

    Asking Google to censor it just means that the "terrorists" will just go to Microsoft's new beta map.

    1. Re:GEarth has nothing to do with it by Threni · · Score: 4, Informative

      > Asking Google to censor it just means that the "terrorists" will just go to
      > Microsoft's new beta map.

      Or Cryptome.org, with it's collection of satellite images:

      http://www.eyeball-series.org/

  2. Re:Yeah ok.. by Richard_at_work · · Score: 4, Informative

    The blocks over the Whitehouse and surrounding buildings is to stop people spotting Secret Service positions etc rather than building layouts.

  3. Re:More details by dodald · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not to mention that they also have Aerial photos on the site too.

    http://www.ansto.gov.au/info/00images.html

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  4. Link to Google Map's Sat Images by imemyself · · Score: 4, Informative

    Link to satellite images of ANSTO I _think_ that is where it is. I could be wrong, but that looks more like a nuclear facility than anything else in the area. Thanks to ANSTO for providing a map. :)

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