Friday, March 07, 2008

Uncle Sam *doesn't* want you ...

The Pentagon has asked - and Google has complied - that the online mapper stop showing some Street View images of military installations, out of fears that national security could be compromised. The story is all over the Web. One from Reuters is as good as any to get a sense of what's going on.
As you probably know, this is not Street View's first step into controversy. Other folks have complained about privacy invasions, as SV has offered some "peeks" into people's windows as the SV crews have happened by, snapping away.

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