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Google Loses Street View Suit, Forced To Pay $1
Translation Error writes "Two and a half years ago, the Borings sued Google for invading their privacy by driving onto their private driveway and taking pictures of their house to display on Google Street View. Now, the case has finally come to a close with the judge ruling in favor of the Borings and awarding them the princely sum of $1. While the judge found the Borings to be in the right, she awarded them only nominal damages, as the fact that they had already made images of their home available on a real estate site and didn't bother to seal the lawsuit to minimize publicity indicated the Borings neither valued their privacy nor had it been affected in any great way by Google's actions."
Will Google be allowed to make installment payments on that?
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Since the judge found for the plaintiff, you would have to assume each paid their own. If the Boring's lawyer worked on a contingency, that would land him around $0.33 cold hard cash, to spend as he would like.
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I hope they enjoy their $1.
If I were in charge at Google, I would go in person to deliver then an enormous $1 cheque.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
And pull up in a Google Street View van?
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Notify all local media outlets.
And bring my own camera crew so I could post the whole think on youtube.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
Really?
It was a Boring picture anyway.
Why are the Slashdot editors posting Boring stories on the front page?
What's so Boring about privacy?
"Everybody called me Mr. Boring, but now I'm famous!"
This is a more Boring version of the Streisand Effect.
Google is Boring its way into our privacy. (Didn't see that one coming, didya?)
Making up these bad wordplays is Boring the hell out of me. ...are we done?
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
I guess one could say that this case had
*puts on shades*
a Boring outcome
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