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June 10, 2016 10:43 am GMT
More about Google Street View, India, and Tech
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India temporarily blocks Google Street View for security reasons
The world will have to wait for a while to see India's cities and landscapes on Google Street View. The Indian government has rejected Google's plans to include India in its 360-degreesstreet-mapping service because of security concerns.
India's security agencies were especially concerned because the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were preceded by photographic surveillance of the city's targets by Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley. As a result, the government believes that allowing Google to take images for Street View would compromise the country's security. Read more...
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