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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I'd Like To See Them Try This

[aquatone282]

. . . at a Navy or Air Force base where nuclear weapons are stored.

The Google Map crew would quickly learn concrete and asphalt do not taste good at all.