It's no big deal that we could find crazy, random stuffs on Google Street View. But in this case, boobs were unfortunate capture for Google and now the company has to pay for it.
Back in 2009, Maria Pia Grillo looked up her Montreal house on Google Street View and found an image of herself sitting on her porch, hunched over in such a way that a good bit of her cleavage was forever recorded and available on the Web. The image did blurred her face, but the rest of the image; like her house revealed enough information to easily discern whose boobs belong to the blurred face.
Now almost after two years after the discovery, Pia began legal proceedings to blur all identifying information out of the image, the whole house and it's surrounding. She also demanded $45,000 for emotional damage and depression caused by mockery.
The judge decided that the Street View image did not have a provable connection to Grillo’s claimed emotional distress, but did agreed to the fact that Google invaded her privacy just because she was in a public place (outside her home), does not mean her privacy can be invaded. He ordered Google to pay out $2,250, interest, and $159 in court fees.
Well, let's hope some crazy women won't imitate the same and try to get some cash for themselves, also it's a lesson for Google to start blurring more of such images as I am sure there are so many boobs out there!
Source : Gigaom
Back in 2009, Maria Pia Grillo looked up her Montreal house on Google Street View and found an image of herself sitting on her porch, hunched over in such a way that a good bit of her cleavage was forever recorded and available on the Web. The image did blurred her face, but the rest of the image; like her house revealed enough information to easily discern whose boobs belong to the blurred face.
Now almost after two years after the discovery, Pia began legal proceedings to blur all identifying information out of the image, the whole house and it's surrounding. She also demanded $45,000 for emotional damage and depression caused by mockery.
The judge decided that the Street View image did not have a provable connection to Grillo’s claimed emotional distress, but did agreed to the fact that Google invaded her privacy just because she was in a public place (outside her home), does not mean her privacy can be invaded. He ordered Google to pay out $2,250, interest, and $159 in court fees.
Well, let's hope some crazy women won't imitate the same and try to get some cash for themselves, also it's a lesson for Google to start blurring more of such images as I am sure there are so many boobs out there!
Source : Gigaom
