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Google's Mapping Contest Draws Ire From Indian Government
hypnosec writes with news that India's Central Bureau of Investigation has ordered a preliminary enquiry (PE) against Google for violating Indian laws by mapping sensitive areas and defence installations in the country. As per the PE, registered on the basis of a complaint made by the Surveyor General of India's office to the Union Home Ministry, Google has been accused of organizing a mapping competition dubbed 'Mapathon' in February-March 2013 without taking prior permission from Survey of India, country's official mapping agency. The mapping competition required citizens to map their neighbourhoods, especially details related to hospitals and restaurants. The Survey of India (SoI), alarmed by the event, asked the company to share its event details. While going through the details the watchdog found that there were several coordinates having details of sensitive defence installations which are out of the public domain."
There are no national secrets anymore. This is fucking retarded. Anybody with a satellite can see anything they don't want you to see, AND MORE. India is more of a third world shit hole every day, which is saying something.
No, most of the world didn't but the WMDs line. The UN Security Council disagreed. The UN inspectors disagreed. Various intelligence agencies of our allies told us the WMD stuff was nonsense and we were being fed lies. Even our own agencies said some of the intelligence was shaky at best before Powell's presentation about the mobile port-a-lets and aluminum tubes. The "Coalition of the Willing" was an absolute joke (probably because we still forget Poland).
Also, you Ameritards have still yet to apologize to France about being right about the Iraq clusterfuck. But you sure showed them by adding trillions to our debt and eating "freedom fries", right?