VIDEO: Secret Places that Google Earth is Hiding

Technology is taking over every single part of our life and there’s no running away from it because we have become dependent on it and need it for everything.

If you forget your phone at home you feel like you have nothing because we depend on it for communication, for directions and times and just about anything else you can imagine.

According to anonews.co, when technology is on a skyrocket to extinguishing any sort of privacy in our lives, it appears only the rich, corrupt or those subject to terrorist attacks can have an artful word with the web masters and remove themselves from Google Earth.

By hiding these places they don’t realize that they attract unwanted attention even more and everyone stares at that weird blurred out spot and tries to imagine what is hidden there and why it was hidden.

Some are terribly obvious: solid green Lego-style chunks covering mysterious tundras; copy-and-paste jobs to replace secretive landmarks, and areas that have been completely Jackson Pollocked. At its extreme, whole countries can be virtually eradicated.

Zoom into North Korea on Google Maps and you’ll see a bare minimum labeling system, and that’s actually an improvement: up until last year, the capital city of Pyongyang was the only point labeled.

A community of citizen cartographers voluntarily collaborated on Google Map Maker for several years, using analog maps and known points of interest to create a highly detailed map of the Hermit country.

Thanks to this newly-unveiled map, Google was able to reveal the exact site of North Korea’s nuclear weapons test last month – one of the reasons they didn’t want to be on the satellite system in the first place, along with the fact they now bear home to the largest death camps viewable on Google Earth.

Concentration camps where between 600,000 and 2,500,000 people have been tortured, starved, and executed is definitely not desirable for any country to have on display.

There are, unsurprisingly, regions of the planet that officials do not wish to be viewed by any old eye on the web. Reasons for certain landmarks being hidden by Google are obvious to see, but some are just unintelligible and downright perplexing.

Some conspicuously hidden places have been physically visited by Internet users, only to report back there was absolutely nothing to see there. What on Earth are they hiding?

No one knows why this location in Russia was so thickly blurred out: it’s amongst the Siberian tundra and the closest city is Egvekinot, Russia; neighbor to Alaska across the Bering Strait.

In 1986, Russians were officially told that there were dozens of closed cities and towns all over the country, with more than one million people living in them.

What is most unsettling is the fact the cities had mysterious numbers attached to their names: Arzamas-16 (the home of the nuclear engineers who put an end to America’s nuclear monopoly), Krasnoyarsk-26, Tomsk-7… the list goes on. Could this hidden tundra have anything to do with Russia’s secret cities?