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When Google launched their awesome application Google Earth, it provided a completely new experience to the web user. The ability to see satellite images right here from our desktop screen was an awesome concept.

However, it has created massive problems for the security agencies in various countries around the world. Several organizations have already contacted the search engine company to get some sensitive regions blurred from their servers so that those regions cannot be monitored by regular users, which might include anti-social elements.

Now the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair has expressed his fears about the capabilities of Google Earth application.

He said in an interview to a media group: “they have collected images from foreign satellites and that comes to one meter (resolution) and better. For example if you take Bangalore or Delhi, they have given fine pictures — which normally one is not supposed to do.”

He further added: “I think our defense agencies should be worried about it. They have to work out some method by which we can (do something)…we need not display anything. We have to have a dialogue with them, convince them that in the global interest, especially in the security environment we are facing today, we should not be putting fine details on a public domain.”

The sad part is that the application has been available for more than a couple of months now and the Indian government is still ‘thinking’ about the steps they can take to get sensitive areas removed from the eyes of the Google Earth users!