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...take long for web users to find peculiar and embarrassing images that raised questions about the ethics of the project. Stephen Chau, product manager for Google Maps, says this is less an attempt to infringe on people's privacy than the company's attempt to advance its core mission:" At Google, we take privacy very seriously," Chau says. "Street View only features imagery taken on public property and is not real time. This imagery is no different from what any person can readily capture or see walking down the street...
...about how many images had been removed thus far due to reports from users, Chau could not offer an exact number but said it had been negligible. He noted that the company has received mostly positive feedback, suggesting visitors are using the product as it was intended. "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful... a significant amount of information can be found in mapping the world, by gaining a better understanding of the world in general," he says...
...MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, SEASON...
Sometimes the appetizer is more fun than the main course. Where the Mission: Impossible movies trade in explosions and vertiginous high-wire feats, the brilliantly implausible TV version used charm and DIY ingenuity. Greg Morris and Peter Graves, both center, and the Impossible Missions Force capture international drug smugglers, weapons dealers and corrupt government officials, often with little more than an eye patch, a lady, a drill and lots of nerve...
...help wondering if the American media are finally starting to notice what we who live and work in Baghdad have known for quite some time: that what we are doing is working. In fact, we have had many successes since 2003, and we continue to go forward with our mission. I wonder when the pundits and politicians will apologize to the American people for being so wrong-headed and defeatist. More important, when will the same folks apologize to those of us here making it happen...