The head of U.S. Air Force intelligence and surveillance on Thursday said data available commercially through online mapping software such as Google Earth posed a danger to security but could not be rolled back. “To talk about danger is, if I may, really is irrelevant because it’s there,” said Lt. Gen. David Deptula, deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. “No one’s going to undo commercial satellite imagery,” he told reporters in Washington. Deptula cited Google Inc.’s Google Earth, which gives Web users an astronaut’s view of the earth and allows them to zoom down to street level.
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