The US defence department has banned the giant internet search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases.

Close-up, ground-level imagery of US military sites posed a "potential threat" to security, it said.


The move follows the discovery of images of the Fort Sam Houston army base in Texas on Google Maps.


A Google spokesman said that where the US military had expressed concerns, images had been removed.


Google has now been barred from filming and conducting detailed studies of bases, following the discovery of detailed, three-dimensional panoramas online - and in particular, views of the Texan base.


Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7282635.stm