Google Pulls Map Images At Pentagon's Request

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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Do no evil? But kiss donkey butt

[ctdownunder]

Google again publicly kisses up to the US industrial military complex. Of course privately and from the their news feed selection it is clear to me that they probably work or have worked with the US security services. Are they partly owned by the NSA or another agency? If I was running an acronym agency I would at least try. Especially since US laws allow for this very evil non democratic type of covert activity.