[antninja]

Google could still turn off the balloons above the hostile nations. Saying: we can give you cheap Internet if you want of nothing if you don't want.

If balloons have a camera, they would at least provide higher-definition data for Maps.

[phire]

At the project loon launch event, I asked the google people about installing cameras. They stated that they had very clearly decided not to install cameras because they didn't want any issues to distract them from their stated goal of providing internet.

[packetslave]

Loon balloons do not have cameras.