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• Using Google Earth and GPS to Track Afghanistan Cash | Danger Room | Wired.com
  To avoid fraud, Afghanistan cash-for-work projects are documented locally using GPS-enabled cameras. (This will work as long as nobody decides to hack the EXIF data:-)
• Google warned by EU over Street View map photos - Yahoo! Finance
  EU privacy regulators tell Google it must first warn people when and where it will be taking Street View photos. Also, they want Google to keep the original unblurred images for just 6 months, vs. the current 1 year.

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• Iran threatens airline ban over Arabian Gulf tag | Reuters
  "Iran has threatened to ban airlines from using its airspace if they refer to the waterway between Iran and Arab states as the "Arabian" instead of "Persian" Gulf." Admittedly a very creative way to censor. Let's hope India and China don't catch on. Most likely, the upshot would be no more in-flight mapping for affected flights.

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• Google LatLong: Google Earth now available for Android
  Google Earth for Android: Faster than iPhone, with bigger screen, voice commands and a road layer.

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