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Judge Dismisses Google Street View Case
angry tapir writes "A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania family against Google after the company took and posted images of the outside of their house in its Maps service. The lawsuit, filed in April 2008, drew attention because it sought to challenge Google's right to take street-level photos for its Maps' Street View feature. Judge Amy Reynolds Hay from the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania granted Google's request for dismissing the lawsuit because 'the plaintiffs have failed to state a claim under any count.'"
Not my primary means of problem solving at all. Just my immediate response to this specific offense. A man's home is his castle--remember that.
Our military will protect our nation from invasion, just as I will protect my household from invasion.
Let the cards fall how they may, I hope you are wise enough to know what is real; your ideals won't save you from the millions of men like me that may (in your view) over-react to trespassers.
When you wake up at 3AM and a man is standing next to your bed, what is your idealist response then? Please don't tell me you embrace the importance of privacy only when it affects you. Lol.
And all the Bush-haters are upset about Bush+telecoms. Yet all the google fanboys don't seem to care about privacy in this case. I'm upset about *both* because I won't hold Google to a different standard.