Google Earth is a software that allows you to navigate planet Earth from multiple views. Google Earth combines satellite photos and maps with a search engine to allow you search to find directions and specific addresses or general locations and services.
The software has been criticized by a number of special interest groups, including national officials, as being an invasion of privacy and even posing a threat to national security. The typical argument is that the software provides information about military or other critical installations that could be used by terrorists.
The question here posted is that how this new technology does has something good on promoting democracy? We think that it’s invading our own privacy, however the good way we can see is that we can search and have a look for the desired tourist destinations where we plan to go for vocations and nothing more than that.
It seems a bad news for peace-loving nations who are eager to protect their own countries’ assets from prying eyes. Besides that, some citizens all around the world may express concerns over aerial information depicting their properties and residences being disseminated freely. As relatively few jurisdictions actually guarantee the individual's, right to privacy as opposed to the state's right to secrecy, this is an evolving, but
minor, point.
For example, in October 2007, The Guardian reported that the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades were using Google Earth to plan Qassam rocketattacks on
If you wanna get a feel on how powerful is the google earth, you can just download the software and try it.
http://google-earth.en.softonic.com/
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