Anonymous: Ram Jakhu, a professor of space law at McGill University in Montreal, on Google Earth: “If my neighbors’ pigeons got into my yard, I wouldn’t start a big fight about that, because I wouldn’t want to damage our relationship. But if they put a snake in my children’s room, that’s a much more serious matter and would warrant a bigger response. The U.S. is under obligation to make sure these images are not being distributed in a manner other countries consider harmful.” Most of the pix were in the public domain before Google Earth was born.

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