Why is this park in Athens hidden from view in Google (but not Bing)?

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This part of Athens includes the Presidential Mansion, the Prime Minister's Office and several embassies and other government buildings. For some reason the Greek government thought it is strategically important to censor them from the internet, even though in most other countries such places are seen clearly.

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I have noticed before that Google maps blurs places on request from (local) governments where others do not blur.

One explanation is that Google maps was earlier and the request for blurring was not repeated with the other mapping services. An other explanation is that the other map services did not comply with the request.

And a third is that while the area was sensitive at one time, it is no longer and Google did not remove the blurring yet, or is now sensitive and Google was the first to add the blur.

Likely the truth will be somewhere in the middle, each of these reasons may be true some of the time, non all of the time.

I do not know about the reason for this particular blur, I always assume it has a governmental or military building where there is a blur.

No links as this is what I remember from the news back when some changes happened.

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