Did Google airbrush Katrina history?
A congressional subcommittee accused Google on Friday of airbrushing history by replacing post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its popular map portal with images of the region taken before the storms devastation. An interesting read for those that thing ‘Big Brother’ is always watching.
Googles use of old imagery appears to be doing the victims of Hurricane Katrina a great injustice by airbrushing history, subcommittee chairman Brad Miller, D-N.C., wrote Friday in a letter to Schmidt. Swapping the post-Katrina images and the ruin they revealed for others showing an idyllic city dumbfounded many locals and even sparked suspicions that the company and civic leaders were conspiring to portray the areas recovery progressing better than it is.
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