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| Debunking the Google Earth Censorship Myth                         |
|   from the just-what-they-want-you-to-think dept.                  |
|   posted by timothy on Saturday September 27, @22:26 (Censorship)  |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/28/0033216 |
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[0]waderoush writes “There’s a persistent Web meme to the effect that
Google obscures sensitive or top-secret locations in Google Maps and
Google Earth at the insistence of national governments. A July IT
Security article promoted on Digg, ‘[1]Blurred Out: 51 Things You Aren’t
Allowed to See on Google Maps,’ revived this notion. But the article has
been widely criticized, and I did some fact-checking this week on the six
Boston-area locations mentioned in the IT Security list. As it turns out,
[2]not one of the allegedly blurred locations has degraded imagery in
Google Maps, as my screen shots demonstrate. My post looks into the
sources of the misleading IT Security piece, and of other mistaken rumors
about Google Maps.”

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Links:
0. mailto:wroush [Email address: wroush #AT# xconomy.com - replace #AT# with @ ]
1. http://www.itsecurity.com/features/51-things-not-on-google-maps-071508/
2. http://www.xconomy.com/national/2008/09/26/boston-unblurred-debunking-the-google-maps-censorship-myth/