Article: ASSEMBLYMAN GIANARIS RENEWS CALL ON GOOGLE TO RESTRICT AVAILABILITY OF SENSITIVE SATELLITE PHOTOS

Assemblyman Michael Gianaris, D-Astoria (36th District), issued the following press release:

In light of the recent terror plot at John F. Kennedy Airport where plotters used Google Earth to discover the airport's layout, and two years after initially warning Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the danger to sensitive locations as a result of the Google Earth program, Assemblyman Michael Gianaris (D-Queens) renewed his call for Google to take steps to obstruct the views of potential terrorist targets.

According to several published reports, detailed satellite images of JFK and surrounding gas pipelines were secured by the plotters using Google Earth when efforts to gain these images through other ...

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