New Uses for Google Earth: tax collection

Normally, people tend to think of Google Earth as subversive. Exposing state secrets and allowing the commoners to gaze at the party complexes and palaces of aristocratic elites. Apparently, Big Google can also be put to work by the likes of Big Government. The Los Angeles Times reports that the  bankrupt Greek government is using Google Earth to find people who have installed swimming pools and have been refusing to pay taxes for them. Some have begun camouflaging their pools which might be in vein. The Greek government claims to be using archived Google Earth images to pursue tax evaders.