Google sued for images hosted by Google Street View service
April 5th, 2008 Leave a comment Visited 103 times, 1 so far today
Google sued for images hosted by Google Street View service
Google is facing a new lawsuit filed by a couple based in Pennsylvania due to images they host on their Street View service.
The couple has sued the company saying that the images of their home hosted by the service violate their privacy.
The lawsuit further claims that the images devalued their property. It added: “A major component of their purchase decision was a desire for privacy.”
Google Street View service enables a web user to check photos of streets on a map.
Google spokesman Larry Yu spoke about this lawsuit: “We absolutely respect that people may not be comfortable with some of the imagery on the site. We actually make it pretty easy for people to submit a request to us to remove the imagery.”
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Ankur Singh
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April 5th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Google really messed up on this.
A. They broke the law when they trespassed on the property to take a picture of a house.
B. Their defense that they make it easy to remove images from their system is absurd. Is Google suggesting that we should be constantly surfing their website (and their competitors website, if others follow in their path), just to check to be sure that they have posted illegal content?
Googles position on this is so wrong that this will prove to be a public relations nightmare for a company that has not had a bad reputation up to this point. The correct response would have been to say, “We made a mistake, we should not have trespassed to take this picture.”