>The question isn't whether the data exists. It does. The question is, why isn't it being displayed? I just took a look at the Google Maps for Midtown Manhatta

>The question isn't whether the data exists. It does. The question is, why isn't it being displayed? I just took a look at the Google Maps for Midtown Manhattan and they appear to be from around August 2019. Google surely has newer satellite images available for NYC. What is the reason they aren't updating them? I think current events are making everyone a little too paranoid here. The images were required by law to be of lower resolution until mid-2020. The law changed and Google hasn't gotten around to updating the images yet because there is always a lag in imagery being updated. No real conspiracy theory needed.