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There are situations where the censorship of certain sites was subsequently removed. For example, when Google Maps and Google Earth were launched, images of the White House and United States Capitol were blurred out; however, these sites are now uncensored. [3]
Google Earth is getting a few more hits lately. An image has many suspecting that a giant sea creature is lurking in New Zealand waters. An engineer reportedly spotted the being in the Oke Bay ...
Google Earth gives people the power to search remote areas of the globe, and those virtual treks have resulted in some rather intriguing discoveries. Here are 10 mysterious sites spotted via ...
The office described Google's program as taking pictures "beyond the extent of the ordinary sight from a street", and that it "disproportionately invade citizens' privacy." However, pictures taken before this decision (mostly in 2009) may have remained available online; Google obliged to erase every picture from that period should they be disputed.
For instance, a map might add nonexistent bends to a street, or depict a major street as a narrow lane, without changing its location or its connections to other streets, or the trap street might be placed in an obscure location of a map that is unlikely to be referenced. Trap streets are rarely acknowledged by publishers.
One day, Anna Costley stumbled upon TikTok videos of people participating in the Google Maps trend, in which users reminisce over photos of their old homes taken from satellite images over the years
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
After firing up Google’s map software to plan a camping trip in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region, he told CBC, he found the curve of what turned out to be a roughly nine-mile-diameter pit near a ...