Images of the prime minister's official residence, The Lodge have not been blurred. It was reported that in the lead-up to the APEC forum in Sydney held in September 2007 certain key locations in images of the city's central business district, where APEC leaders were meeting, might have been intentionally reduced in resolution however, Google has indicated that the change was unrelated to APEC, while the NSW police said that they knew nothing about the change in Google's images.

The Australian government has decided that images of sensitive areas are not a risk, due to poor level of detail. Countries engaged with Google Maps ĭuring talks with the Indian government, Google issued a statement saying 'Google has been talking and will continue to talk to the Indian government about any security concerns it may have regarding Google Earth.' Google agreed to blur images on request of the Indian government. For example, when Google Maps and Google Earth were launched, images of the White House and United States Capitol were blurred out however, these sites are now uncensored. There are cases where the censorship of certain sites was subsequently removed.

For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots) from its satellite imagery. Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. This is a list of satellite map images with missing or unclear data.

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