Taiwan will reportedly ask Apple to blur a top-secret radar base which appears in its new Maps application for iOS 6, reports Phys.org.
The defence ministry reacted after the Liberty Times newspaper printed a satellite picture, downloaded with an iPhone 5, showing a top-secret long-range radar base in the northern county of Hsinchu.
"Regarding images taken by commercial satellites, legally we can do nothing about it," the ministry's spokesman David Lo told reporters. "But 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, referring to the Google Earth programme.
The Hsinchu base houses a long-range radar purchased from the United States in 2003. It's construction is expected to be completed by the end of the year, costing $1.23 billion. Once operational it will provide Taiwan minutes of extra warning in case of a Chinese missile attack.
Apple has not yet received a formal request from the government to blur the images.
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Try - October 16, 2012 at 7:42pm
Beg to apple
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Noah - October 10, 2012 at 3:18am
Anyone else now looking for the base? Lol jk. :D
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King - October 9, 2012 at 8:18pm
And that way no one would kno where it is...... LoL
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Copperhead - October 9, 2012 at 5:50pm
I've requested Apple and Google to please have green dots on every hot girl's house in the world. I've yet to receive a response. I have sent a formal request. :)
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OceanMindedBoy - October 9, 2012 at 5:35pm
I added a request to turn my home into a castle in the maps.
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