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Terrorists Using Google Earth to Attack UK Troops?
A UK newspaper has published an article about print-outs of aerial photography taken using Google Earth being found during raids of the homes of insurgents. The photos may have been used by terrorists attacking British bases in Basra, Iraq. They show buildings in the bases, tent areas, bathrooms, and more. The photos may have also been two years old, but if bases didn’t change much they would have been useful. The photos are at least older than March 2003, since that is when the Iraq War began. The British camps fend-off daily mortar and rocket attacks according to the article.
This begs the question: should Google Earth/Maps be banned in certain high-risk areas? And if so who determines what areas to blackout, and where does it stop? We have ourselves a very slippery slope.
Source: Telegraph
Tags: Google
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