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Google Pulls Map Images At Pentagon's Request

Posted by kdawson on from the limits-to-openness dept.

Stony Stevenson alerts us to a little mixup in which a Google Street View crew requested and was granted access to a US military base. Images from inside the base (which was not identified in press reports) showed up online, and the Pentagon requested that they be pulled. Google complied within 24 hours. The military has now issued a blanket order to deny such photography requests in the future; for its part Google says the filming crew should never have asked.

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  1. Re:Google Haters by Goffee71 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google isn't that evil, for a start; All your base photography are not belong to us

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  2. Flowers beat military force! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you know, the hippies had it right after all.

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