With technology on a skyrocket to extinguishing any sort of privacy in our lives, it appears only the rich, corrupt or those subject to terrorist attacks can have an artful word with the web masters and remove themselves from Google Earth.

Some are terribly obvious: solid green Lego-style chunks covering mysterious tundras; copy-and-paste jobs to replace secretive landmarks, and areas that have been completely Jackson Pollocked. At its extreme, whole countries can be virtually eradicated.

Zoom into North Korea on Google Maps and you’ll see a bare minimum labeling system, and that’s actually an improvement: up until last year, the capital city of Pyongyang was the only point labelled. A community of citizen cartographers voluntarily collaborated on Google Map Maker for several years, using analog maps and known points of interest to create a highly detailed map of the Hermit country.

Thanks to this newly-unveiled map, Google was able to reveal the exact site of North Korea’s test last month – one of the reasons they didn’t want to be on the satellite system in the first place, along with the fact they now bear home to the largest death camps viewable on Google Earth. Concentration camps where between 600,000 and 2,500,000 people have been tortured, starved, and executed is definitely not desirable for any country to have on display.

Google Earth lets us travel the world from the safety of our computer screens. Yet there are places they are hiding from us, why?

Have a look at this video!!

Credits – whatculture

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