Potential terrorism in Google Earth

Indian President Abdul Kalam recently expressed concern about the preeminent and popular features of the Google Earth service. According to him, the service has loopholes for terrorists to take advantage of.

The reason is that the service allows to search too much the facilities and locations on the ground, through satellite images.

Kalam suggested that it should be reviewed legally, stricter regulation of the dissemination and access to these satellite images of Google Earth. He said the service was sometimes not in line with the laws of some countries and asked the United Nations to reconsider this issue.

It is known that Google Earth contains very detailed photos of the presidential palace, the parliament building and the important houses of the Indian government. Not only that, Google Earth also allows access, observations of photographs of the country's military areas.

Before India, South Korea, Australia, the Netherlands and Thailand voiced their opposition to Google's service. The representative of the Korean government also said that satellite images were too detailed for government and military facilities, which were so widely and easily available, a real danger. muscle threatens national safety.

The same "mood", the head of Australia's atomic agency has also expressed concern over safety issues in Google Earth's photographs with the country's only nuclear reactor. this. However, later, the Autralia government voiced its claim to stand by the view of protecting freedom of information and said that these concerns are completely unfounded.

Mai Hoa ( According to Lenta.ru )