<Li> The lone surviving gunman involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks admitted to using Google Earth to familiarise himself with the locations of buildings used in the attacks . </Li> <Li> Michael Finton, aka Talib Islam, used Google Earth in planning his attempted September 24, 2009, bombing of the Paul Findley Federal Building and the adjacent offices of Congressman Aaron Schock in Springfield, Illinois . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Operators of the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia asked Google to censor high - resolution pictures of the facility . They later withdrew the request . </Li> <Li> In 2009, Google superimposed old woodblock prints of maps from 18th and 19th century Japan over Japan today . These maps marked areas inhabited by the burakumin caste, who were considered "non-humans" for their "dirty" occupations, including leather tanning and butchery . Descendants of members of the burakumin caste still face discrimination today and many Japanese people feared that some would use these areas, labeled etamura (穢 多 村, translation: "village of an abundance of defilement" "), to target current inhabitants of them . These maps are still visible on Google Earth, but with the label removed where necessary . </Li> <Li> Late 2000s versions of Google Earth require a software component running in the background that will automatically download and install updates . Several users expressed concerns that there is not an easy way to disable this updater, as it runs without the permission of the user . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Operators of the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia asked Google to censor high - resolution pictures of the facility . They later withdrew the request . </Li>

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