Google Blurring Sensitive Map Information
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 27 January 2007
While viewing my school (the University of Massachusetts Lowell) with Google Maps, I noticed that a select portion of the campus was pixelated: the operational nuclear research facility on campus. Curious, I attempted to view the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts. It too was pixelated. What or who is compelling Google to smudge out these images selectively? Will all satellite images of facilities that the government deems 'sensitive' soon be subject to censoring?
Yesterday, Google admitted that censoring in China was a bad idea, and now this. Terrorists who are unsure if an object is worth to be bombed, they simply have to check Google; if it's blured, hit it.