New Controversy With Google Maps
Google has fallen this week into a new controversy regarding it’s latest efforts to map the world. The heat this time comes from Taiwan which Google currently refers to as a “Taiwan, Province of China” while Taiwan itself likes to be addressed as it’s own nation:
Google’s “information about Taiwan is totally wrong,” said David Lu, spokesman for the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco. “We have our sovereignty, our own territory, and 23 million people.”
However, to it’s defence Google said,
In building Google Maps, Google relied on data from “internationally authoritative sources,” Frost said. While it reviews Taiwan’s complaints, the company will also take a closer look at its overall map naming.
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