U.S. Military Bans Google Street View From Bases
The launch last year of Google's Street View -- which gives you a driver's seat view of actual streets -- made all of us a little freaked out about the prospects of our dwindling privacy. Now, the U.S. military is similarly concerned, and has banned Google from mapping out the streets of its military bases.
The move will mean that Google's so-called Googlemobile, a roving van that takes 360-degree images of the streets for use on the site, will be stopped at the gates of any base. That is, of course, assuming the driver of the van would actually try to get into the base in the first place.
We're sure that someone out there will cry foul about the U.S. government limiting our freedoms, but this is one restriction on the availability of information on the Internet that we can get behind. Granted, these days most military bases look little different inside than your average housing development, but that doesn't mean we need to let everyone around the world see that for themselves.
From Fark and Breitbart.com
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Mapper99 @ Mar 8th 2008 5:34PM
Hmmm..was a just a matter of time I guess. Check out this bloggers list of questionable Google Street View sightings:
http://streetviewgallery.corank.com