Planet Labs, one of the world’s leading commercial satellite imaging companies, said Friday it is placing a hold on releasing imagery of some parts of the Middle East as a regional war enters its second week.

Planet wants to prevent “adversarial actors” from using images for “Battle Damage Assessment” purposes.

  • Luminous5481 "War Crimes Luminous" [they/them]@anarchist.nexusBanned from community
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    2 months ago

    Not completely pointless until Russia starts providing the intel to news organizations.

    none of the mainstream media would report on that anyway, so it’s still pretty pointless. western media has shown that it’s pretty invested in not covering things that make western nations look bad.