“Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam expressed concern Saturday about a free mapping program from Google Inc., warning it could help terrorists by providing satellite photos of potential targets,” reports The Associates Press.

“Google Earth, an Internet site launched in June this year, allows users to access overlapping satellite photos. Although not all areas are highly detailed, some images are very high resolution, and some show sensitive locations in various countries.

“At a meeting of top police officials in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, Kalam said he worried that ‘developing countries, which are already in danger of terrorist attacks, have been singularly chosen’ for providing high resolution images of their sites.

“The governments of South Korea and Thailand and lawmakers in the Netherlands have expressed similar concerns.”