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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Imagery Blackout-“We can’t tell you…it’s a secret”

At GITA, Dr. Bill Gail of Microsoft’s Virtual Earth team addressed a question as to working with highly sensititve imagery of perhaps a national security concern and whether they might be asked to black out areas on Virtual Earth. Google had been asked to do this previously for certain areas and Microsoft wanted to preempt such situations. Gail said that Microsoft has sat down with various government agencies to ask them about these potential conflict areas that they thought might be blacked out if asked to do so. Their answer was, "it’s a secret, we can’t tell you."

by Joe Francica on 03/07 at 02:29 PM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

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