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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.'"
If I leave the door to my home open and come home to find that my things are missing, I was an idiot for leaving the door open.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
a white guy with a big black camera sure is scary!
They would probably get really freaked out if a big black guy with a white camera showed up!
Not anonymous at all. And not an e-thuggery attempt either.
Privacy is something I will defend to ends even I cannot forsee. Make your jokes, but I hope you are wise enough to know that trespassing another man's land may get you hurt.
Trepass is not automatically a crime
and in most places you need to be asked and provided the means to leave before it can be considered a crime
Do you have any references for this?
Back to my point: Your ideals won't save your stupid ass from a beating or a bullet. Wise up. The real world doesn't give a shit about you.
For fuck sake, Google was not standing over the guys bed trespassing in his home. They accidentally drove up a private driveway, then removed the images when asked. Thats it. No invasion of privacy. No break and enter.
It was a stupid lawsuit and deserved to be thrown out.
Happened in 2 places in my own area that I found. This isn't just some individual case. They do this all over the place. Happened overseas, as read on slashdot, and has happened many many times here on our own turf.
The point is not to merely accept it because the majority of what they do is fine; but to understand that they systematically make these mistakes in their operations because they don't actually care to be careful because that takes work--thus placing those intruded upon in charge of looking for and requesting removal of this stuff.
I guess there is a difference in the way people view privacy. I see it as absolute, within the confines of all that I am and hold title to.
This suit carries merit on a much larger scale. That which will guide google to place care before haste.
You would shoot back, even if you just then realized you're bobbling through life, witlessly--- arriving on property that is not yours and doing things you were not permitted to do.
Is there no guilt in your presence? If you never care what you do, or how it may impact others, I guess you might have a point. Otherwise, you're at a loss.