Google Loses Street View Suit, Forced To Pay $1 225
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."
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Re:Precedent (Score:4, Interesting)
"I'd be interested in seeing how Google would react if someone drove into their parking lot, hauled out a camera and started photographing their campus"
What? you mean like this...
http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/2007/02/my-trip-to-google-with-photos.html [blogspot.com]
More: http://www.bing.com/search?q=my+photos+of+google+campus [bing.com]
laugh out loud (Score:2, Interesting)
So they have to pay a dollar...I wonder how much it cost in legal and a check fee for that...not that Google would care...
So let's see, what's the worst way to deliver that $1? Pennies? A moist dollar? An out of state check/money order so it has a week hold on it?
Re:Precedent (Score:5, Interesting)
"I'd be interested in seeing how Google would react if someone drove into their parking lot, hauled out a camera and started photographing their campus"
What? you mean like this... http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/2007/02/my-trip-to-google-with-photos.html [blogspot.com]
More: http://www.bing.com/search?q=my+photos+of+google+campus [bing.com]
haha! you used bing!
Actually, I'm curious: why did you use bing? Plugging your bing search into google yields much better results -- the google search actually turns up mostly photos of google campuses (with your first link as the first hit!), whereas the bing results seem to all be just photos of various college campuses that happen to be hosted on google sites....