Apple Maps accidentally reveals highly sensitive Taiwanese radar installation

10.10.2012
Taiwanese defense officials will ask to blur satellite imagery of a previously unknown radar facility meant to provide early warning in case of a missile attack from mainland China, after the installation was accidentally outted on Apple's new Maps app.

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According to a report from , Taiwan Ministry of Defense spokesman David Lo said that, although the government has no legal recourse against commercial satellite pictures, a request to blur out details of the facility at Hsinchu, in the northwestern part of the country would be forthcoming.

"We'll ask Apple to lower the resolution of satellite images of some confidential military establishments the way we've asked Google in the past," he said, according to AFP.

The report said that the facility houses an ultra-high-frequency radar - made by U.S. contractor Raytheon - that can detect missiles being launched from nearly anywhere in mainland China.