• Rose@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Why do people sue Google and win for it taking pictures of their houses from the streets? It’s all public access, right?

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      2 months ago

      That’s not at all what happened.

      If you had read your own link, the second paragraph:

      An Argentine captured naked in his yard by a Google Street View camera has been awarded compensation by a court after his bare behind was splashed over the internet for all to see.

      He won $16,000 because Google didn’t blur his butt in the picture.

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        2 months ago

        Why would it need to blur it? If you were passing by, I assume you’d see it, so you might as well take a pic and use it for your own corporate needs. That’s the logic we’re talking about here, though it’s not my logic.

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          2 months ago

          I didn’t get into the details too much once I saw that it was completely irrelevant to their point.

          If I had to guess, it would be because Google Maps gets a lot more views than the man typically recieves while walking naked in public.