Taiwan Wants Apple to Blur Sensitive Military Images

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Taiwan Wants Apple to Blur Sensitive Military Images
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Taiwan is asking Apple to blur mobile map images of a sensitive early warning radar station that can detect aircraft and missiles, reports note.

The defense ministry was irked after the Liberty Times, a local newspaper, printed a satellite image, downloaded on an iPhone 5, of a long-range radar base in the northern county of Hsinchu, AFP reports.

The $1.2 billion-plus, high-frequency radar is supplied by Raytheon. It can detect missiles launched as far away as China's northwest, articles said.

A Defense spokesman said that Apple should follow Google's lead and lower the resolution of satellite pictures of secret military facilities.

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