Thursday, January 19, 2012

Google Contractors Vandalize OpenStreetMap Project [VIDEO] (Mashable)

[brightcove video="1398145684001" /] Two contractors working for Google have vandalized one of the biggest group online projects on the Internet, Open Street Map. The project's blog reported that someone from a range of IP addresses that belong to Google edited the map to give false information, like a one-way street going in the wrong direction.

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The troublemakers screwed up street information in New York, London and elsewhere before they were discovered. Google issued a statement saying that the two people involved were contractors acting on their own behalf and that they no longer worked for the company, which employs more than 31,000 employees worldwide, not including part-time people or contractors.

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This story originally published on Mashable here.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20120117/tc_mashable/google_contractors_vandalize_openstreetmap_project_video

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