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Best-kept secret? Concerns raised by Australian authorities about Google show mapping risks – Economic Times
Governments and technology companies are mapping much of the Earth with satellite imagery, but in doing so, they may be putting indigenous communities or those …
BANGKOK: A request by Australian authorities for Google to remove photographs of the top of a sacred indigenous site has sparked a debate on how to better protect such places and whether mapping tools are increasing privacy and conservation risks.
Parks Australia, which is responsible for the national park where Uluru is located, last month objected to the Google Street View tool that allowed users to virtually walk on its summit – which was closed to tourists in 2019 after a decades-long campa…
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