Pentagon Threatens Google

[usasportstraining]

I'm surprised they haven't encouraged Google to black out Google Earth images as well.

Pentagon rattles sabre at Google's Street View

The US defence department has banned Google from capturing images of military facilities for its entertaining Street View facility on Google Maps following the shock discovery of intimate pics of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

It said in a statement that the offending snaps included "360-degree views of the covered area to include access control points, barriers, headquarters, facilities and community areas", thereby posing a threat to national security.

Google spokesman Larry Yu admitted to the BBC that the drive-by recording of Fort Sam Houston had been "a mistake". He added that Google has "a compliant image removal policy - not only relative to the military but to consumers also", a reference to privacy concerns which last August led the search monolith to agree to obscure number plates and faces on request.

In the case of the military, Google has wasted no time obscuring the offending military facility by removing it altogether from Street View:

[redspace]

Pentagon is spying others and invading other people privacy yet they mad at somebody looking at their places.

[davcheong]

hmm...very similar to this ?

[wisdomtool]

I certainly wont be blaming the Pentagon for that. Do you want your top most military secret to be google out easily? Not just the Pentagon, no other countries' defence forces would allow that.

Originally Posted by redspace

Pentagon is spying others and invading other people privacy yet they mad at somebody looking at their places.

[kukuuk101]

Any government take decisions for people.Pentagon take decisions for people. Other governments also have same rights to protect people. wont be blaming the Pentagon or any government.

[zingo]

google should have known better than that anyway, they have big heads.

[wisdomtool]

Big companies have been known to make big blunders.

Originally Posted by zingo

google should have known better than that anyway, they have big heads.

[.Essence.]

I can't get to the actual article, I keep get re-directed to "Forbes says Gates is no longer the world's richest man".

Anyways, I guess now that google has blocked out any potentially "harmful" images that it's all going to blow over and nothing more is going to come of this.

[mediapro]

Makes you wonder why the Pentagon has not prevented this from happening in the first place.

[Isaac]

I'm glad Google went ahead and did what the Pentagon asked. Situation easily resolved.

[jinnnguyen]

What goes around comes around. You love to ban and slap people, now somebody slap and ban you.

[earonsmith]

wow, that not so surprising when pentagon can do that. they also can blank your check if there want too... hihihihi

[Nora]

I think its stupid for the Pentagon to threaten Google.. who knows what they want off the map next. :S

[seo ranter]

I think some other goverment in asia had some problems with google maps showing the layout of military bases...but I think those are still up....

[usasportstraining]

I don't blame them from not wanting to be shown. It's more interesting that Google tried to show it.

Sorry about the bad link above. I think this was the article.

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/..._caves_to.html

[Bohol]

I believe Pentagon has a strong reason to maintain its secrecy. National Security should be our top priority these days.

[usasportstraining]

Originally Posted by seo ranter

I think some other goverment in asia had some problems with google maps showing the layout of military bases...but I think those are still up....

That is very interesting. If Google is honoring the US, but not other country's wishes, that's pretty arrogant. What if Baidu (Chinese search engine) decided to show info like that of US government installations!

[mrwordsworth]

Indian govt have also made google remove images of Indian air force basses and some other high security zones

[silveraden]

Pentagon and anyone who needs privacy have all the rights to complain...

[zexy]

So, what happens if someone see the Pentagon?
Or they're planning another fishy "airplane" attack and don't wont spying eyes?