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Charges Dropped in Google Street View Case
AppScout —
... The court dismissed the charges in their entirety. The Technology and Marketing Law Blog has some highlights from the dismissal, such as this gem: ...
Street View Lawsuit Dismissed
WebProNews Feed —
... than the most exquisitely sensitive - would suffer shame or humiliation." The judge also, while dismissing the claim, concluded that "any attempted amendment would be futile." So she basically doesn't want to hear from the Borings again. This development appears to put Street View on solid legal ground, since its blurring technology should take care of complaints related to faces and license plates. Any future lawsuits will now have a much tougher time moving forward. Hat tip to Eric Goldman . ...
Court Tosses Lawsuit Against Google Over Streetview Photos Of Home
Techdirt —
... It appears that a judge has agreed, dismissing the entire lawsuit while noting the pointlessness of the lawsuit. The court noted that there was no evidence as to why the photos were offensive or damaging, and the fact that the couple chose not to use the available tools to opt-out basically killed their entire argument. ...
Google Wins Street View Privacy Lawsuit
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law, observes that while he considered the Borings' lawsuit "a silly publicity stunt," he is bothered by the judge's circular reasoning with regard to the couple's failure to file the suit under seal. "I was a little troubled by the latter point, which seemed circular to me -- plaintiffs bringing intrusion into seclusion lawsuits unavoidably thrust themselves into the public eye, whether they want to do so or not," he said in a blog post on Tuesday. "This is especially true for anyone suing Google. As a result, it's not ...
Google Wins Street View Privacy Lawsuit
TechWeb —
... professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law, observes that while he considered the Borings' lawsuit "a silly publicity stunt," he is bothered by the judge's circular reasoning with regard to the couple's failure to file the suit under seal. "I was a little troubled by the latter point, which seemed circular to me -- plaintiffs bringing intrusion into seclusion lawsuits unavoidably thrust themselves into the public eye, whether they want to do so or not," he said in a blog post on Tuesday. "This is especially true for anyone suing Google. As a result, it's not ...
The New Bulls-Eye on Google
TechCrunch —
... Let’s look at them in order of most frivolous first. Remember the Pennsylvania couple who sued Google last spring for taking pictures of its house and posting them on Google Street View? The aptly named case, Boring v. Google, has been handily dismissed. The courts wisely struck down the idea that Google was compromising the couple’s privacy since, ahem, they launched a suit calling more attention to their house than an obscure picture on Google Street View ever would have in the first place. It also said the trucks driving by weren’t enough to be considered trespassing, threw ...
Google wins Street View lawsuit, allowed to trespass to take its photos
Obsessable News Feed —
... [techdirt.com] Technology & Marketing Law Blog: Google Street View Case Dismissed--Boring v. Google [blog.ericgoldman.org] ...
Court dismisses claim Google Street View invades folks' privacy
Betanews —
... endure the ordinary incidents of the community life of which he [or she] is a part." Actually, Judge Reynolds argued, the Borings actually could have opted out -- so many sources of Google's rapidly expanding databases have the option of opting out. But not only did they fail to do so, they allowed their names to be Googled to the extent that pictures of their house appeared in a multitude of places other than Street View. That opinion from the Judge prompted technology legal blogger Eric Goldman to write late yesterday afternoon , "I was a little troubled by the latter point, ...
