A small town in Minnesota has demanded it be removed from Google's mapping service.
The private town of North Oaks was up in arms after Google's Street View photography vehicles were spotted cruising down the high street and the community's 4,500 inhabitants complained that their privacy had been breached - all roads leading into the town are adorned with welcoming 'no trespassing' signs.
Google, which famously claims not to be evil, admitted it should not have strayed onto private property and removed the offending photographs. The company said in a statement that it was 'very unusual' for an entire town to ask to be removed from the site, but that it was obliged to honour inhabitants' wishes.
Unfortunately for the shy and retiring folk of North Oaks, their secretive community is available at 25 yards resolution on Microsoft Live Local, at a much higher quality than Google Maps. As Microsoft has never said it wouldn't be evil, we await with interest the company's response to any similar request to remove its images of North Oaks. X
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