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California May Blur Google Earth

Posted by JacobSloan on March 18, 2009

California Assemblyman Joel Anderson, a Republican from the San Diego area, has introduced a bill which would require the blurring of Google Earth and similar online mapping tools. Anderson’s bill would make it illegal for an online service to show “aerial or satellite photographs or imagery” in which a “school or place of worship, or a government or medical building or facility” is visible. Violators would face fines of up to $250,000 per day. Terrorists will be forced to resort to unwieldy fold-out maps and become soundly discouraged.

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