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randy408

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https://support.google.com/maps/thread/152809911/terrorists-...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/t4copf/they_are_us...

Someone with a line to the Maps team should contact them immediately

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Heh, "deleted" from the Internet: https://web.archive.org/web/20220301173337/https://support.g...

but either way, I do hope the traditional "Google support via HN frontpage" actually helps in this circumstance, too

Done! I hope they can act fast.

There has been a response in another ticket that they're harmless markers that have been around for a while, but it's hard to tell if they actually went through the data to confirm it.

https://support.google.com/maps/thread/152846276?hl=en

That’s not an official response and, honestly, I doubt they went through every single data point to check whether they existed before this week or not.

If I were an idiot planning to use a public product for classified opsec activities, the least I would do is try and make them blend in with existing data to reduce the chances of it being removed for just this purpose.

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