United States' defense department has banned Google from capturing images of military facilities for its Street View feature on Google Maps after intimate pictures of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas were discovered.
The department, in a statement, said that the offending snaps included "360-degree views of the covered area to include access control points, barriers, headquarters, facilities and community areas." This definitely poses threats to national security.
In a BBC interview, Google spokesman Larry Yu admitted 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.
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