I don't think it's any surprise to anybody in the security industry that Google Earth Worries Governments.
At a meeting of top police officials in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, Kalam said he worried that "developing countries, which are already in danger of terrorist attacks, have been singularly chosen" for providing high resolution images of their sites.
The governments of South Korea and Thailand and lawmakers in the Netherlands have expressed similar concerns.
South Korean newspapers said Google Earth provides images of the presidential Blue House and military bases in the country, which remains technically at war with communist North Korea. The North's main nuclear facility at Yongbyon is among sites in that country displayed on the service.
The Google site contains clear aerial photos of India's parliament building, the president's house and surrounding government offices in New Delhi. There are also some clear shots of Indian defense establishments.
As a former Air Force imagery analyst, I can see why these countries are concerned. Terrorist are able to do things today that the military could only do twenty years ago. Tools like Google Earth can give a small group of wackos CIA-quality intelligence. I'm not reassured with Google's non-response to this very serious issue.
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