Stefan Geens of the Ogle Earth blog published an impressive piece of digital research that suggests that Google censored some recent satellite imagery in Google Maps/ Google Earth upon government request. What apparently happened is that new satellite imagery from Basra, Iraq, was intentionally replaced with outdated, pre-war imagery, so that it’s of not much help to fighters attacking the US/ British/ ... troops. A UK Telegraph article cites a British military spokesman ...

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... and Google responds:

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[Via Googling Google.]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Original post | Comments]

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