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Woman Sues Google Over Street View Shots of Her Underwear

Posted by samzenpus on from the airing-your-clean-laundry dept.

Kittenman writes "The Telegraph (and several US locals) are covering a story about a Japanese woman who had her underwear on the line while the Google car went past. She is now suing Google: 'I was overwhelmed with anxiety that I might be the target of a sex crime,' the woman told a district court. 'It caused me to lose my job and I had to change my residence.'"

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  1. Streisand Effect by dragonhunter21 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congragulations, miss. The entire readership of /. will now see your underwear.

    Well done.

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  2. So? by ThatMegathronDude · · Score: 5, Funny

    She wasn't wearing them at the time, so who cares?

    1. Re:So? by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 5, Funny

      It was never really meant as a meme but rather a quick way to convey your concurrence to a statement.

      Like the whole
      tl;dr = Too Long Didn't Read
      IANAL = I am not a Lawyer
      LoL = Laugh out Loud

      This = Indubitably my good sir! Your clever insight and concise conveyance of the subject matter at hand was quite enjoyable and I agree with your statement in every facet that one might be agreeable.

  3. Other commenters are wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know many people are saying that she should not have left them out to dry in public view. She made her mistake long before that.

    She is in Japan. She shouldn't have washed them in the first place; instead she could have sold them for a nice profit.

  4. Re:Expectation of Privacy by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's "private". Then there's "public". But then there's "on the Internet", which is a whole different ball of wax.

    Not really. If something is in public view, it could simply be photographed and published anywhere - without permission. That's the nature of "in public view". There's nothing inherently different about it being "on the internet" in these cases.

    The lesson is, to co-opt a phrase, that people shouldn't air their clean laundry in public. :-)

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  5. Re:Common sense says... by arivanov · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is Slashdot, remember?

    What exactly do you think will be the problem if a slashdotter will get playful with his computer?

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  6. Re:Common sense says... by Sanat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seeing those undies hanging there brings a whole new meaning to the word "on-line".

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