Following the terror attacks on Mumbai, an advocate has moved the city’s high court seeking a complete ban on Google Earth and similar sites like Wikimapia in the larger interest of national security. From the Times:
Google Earth image of the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai.
A petition entered at the Bombay High Court alleges that the Google Earth service, “aids terrorists in plotting attacks.” Advocate Amit Karkhanis has urged the court to direct Google to blur images of sensitive areas in the country until the case is decided.
There are indications that the gunmen who stormed Mumbai on November 26, and the people trained them, were technically literate. The group appears to have used complex GPS systems to navigate their way to Mumbai by sea. They communicated by satellite phone, used mobile phones with several different SIM cards, and may have monitored events as the siege unfolded via handheld Blackberry web browsers.
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