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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the US military may not be doing its job

[nguy]

I don't see any reason why these images shouldn't be available. US military installations ought to be some of the best-defended institutions in the world; if they need to hide images "for security reasons", then there's something seriously wrong with their security.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

Every scandal in the last 7 years has been accompanied by a chorus from the right telling us that public exposure to incompetence (Walter Reed) or malfeasance (billions of dollars lost to contractors in Iraq) or law breaking (torture and warrantless wiretaps) are giving "aid and comfort" to the enemies. Somebody please mod this [-1 Wrong].

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.