08 Mar
Pentagon demands Google Maps image removal
Google has complied with a request from the Pentagon to remove some images from its Street Level service on Google Maps on the grounds that they could pose a security threat.
General Gene Renuart from the Homeland Defense Department said that the Pentagon had also banned Google from taking any images of or around military bases for its Street View service.
General Renuart added that the military was now looking closely at other images to ensure nothing had slipped through the net. “We’ve got to get a sense of what is there and see how we can mitigate it,” he said.
In response, Google claimed that the images were collected in error and removed from the service as soon as the mistake had been realised:
tech.co.uk