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[ PRIVACY Forum ] UK military and politicos demand Google make SAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (privacy@vortex.com)
Fri Mar 26 16:18:56 2010
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:51:41 -0700
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( http://www.nnsquad.org/archives/nnsquad/msg03220.html )
UK military and politicos demand Google make SAS
(British Security) facility vanish!
http://bit.ly/98muoI (Mail Online)
It's harder and harder for me to laugh these days, but these kinds of
stories can still do the job. When will governments realize that
Google Street View doesn't do anything that anyone walking or driving
by such locations from public vantage points can also do on their own?
For that matter, discussions about that particular site are in myriad
locations around the Web, going back for years! The UK government
really thinks that their adversaries don't know about the location?
Oh yes, and the British brass must just *love* this site and thread
started in 2006:
Views of British SAS Training Facility and Other Secret Sites:
http://bit.ly/cvsi8g (MilitaryPhotos.net)
That thread also includes a fascinating write-up about the very site
that's the topic of the Street View takedown demands presented to
Google:
Opening Day CredenHill - SAS OPEN DAY - CREDENHILL 30 SEPTEMBER
2000 OFFICIAL OPENING On 30 September 2000 at 11.00 hours, the 22nd
Special Air Service Regiment held the Official Opening Ceremony for
their new Stirling Lines Headquarters at Credenhill in
Herefordshire.
What's really going on, of course, is that Google Street View is
completely inappropriately being used as a convenient scapegoat by
governmental entities who have their own security problems (real or
imagined) and/or political/public relations agendas. Ridiculous.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
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Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
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