Google Earth into 'minions' for terrorism

The Daily Telegraph cited sources of information that British intelligence forces said that Iraqi terrorists may have taken advantage of the online mapping service Google Earth to organize attacks.

Investigating the whereabouts of some of the terrorists, British intelligence forces discovered a number of Google Earth image prints with locations marking the longitude of the latitude coordinates of the British army. .

" We believe that terrorists have used Google Earth to identify the most vulnerable areas of the coalition forces, including camps ," said an official of the British intelligence force. .

Images on Google Earth

At least one soldier was killed in attacks on the camp that were suspected to have been identified by terrorists with Google Earth.

Google spokesperson Rachel Whetstone refused to disclose information about whether Google had negotiated with a British military representative on the issue. However, Whetstone said Google is very interested in this emerging issue.

This is not the first time Google has acknowledged the conflict between its military secrets and its global information disclosure and disclosure services.

In December 2005, the New York Times published views of countries such as India, Russia and South Korea concerned about Google Earth revealing too much about its military bases.

The problem is that Google does not use satellites to be "spies", but Google only buys the images of other companies and uploads them to their services.

" All information is provided by our partners. It is up to the user to use that information. Unfortunately, some people use them for bad purposes . "Whetstone said.

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