Google Earth Bans Washington

After the recent imagery updates from Google Earth, google censored a major part of Washington in a move meant to hide sensitive locations from the public eyes.

Although the search giant didn't announce it, some parts of Washington are not accessible since they were made blurry just like several other locations from Google Earth and Maps. According to the Washington Post, the Mountain View firm had two options concerning the latest imagery update: to keep the old photos that showed a limited amount of details or replace them with newer pictures that are censoring several Washington areas.

In the past, Google had similar problems with Google Earth when the terrorists were using the downloadable mapping tool to organize attacks in multiple countries. The first case was reported in UK where the terrorists turned to Google Earth to attack the army located in Basra. Recently, it was reported that terrorists used the search giant's mapping tool to assault the JFK International Airport. In both cases, the parent company decided to replace the photos with older ones captured in the past.

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