Comments on: Boring couple loses Google Street View privacy lawsuit

By: rob

rob — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:45:00 +0000

there’s too much indulgency with big companies.

I get all kinds of SMS’s to my private cellphone, that is not published anywhere. Same with my fixed phone, I get many calls from different companies that I never contacted.

My Gmail account was hacked and is full of chinese spam messages.

I don’t like the “reactive” approach: We do what we want, if you don’t agree send us a mail. I think this is dangerous. It’s like if I rob 10000 banks and tell the managers to write an email to get their money back.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:33:10 +0000

haha, i think they meant 2008

By: myke

myke — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:09:06 +0000

“In April, 2005, Aaron and Christine Boring brought a lawsuit…bought their property in 2006…added photos of their house to Google Street View in October 2007.”

So, in 2005 they knew to sue Google for a property they would buy a year later being published online a year after that?

By: Cindy Sue Causey

Cindy Sue Causey — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:16:19 +0000

Have seen the occasional reference to this over the years.. Glad I popped in because it’s the very first mention I’ve encountered saying that people can simply request removal there on the website.. That cinches that. :)

The “private road” aspect sticks out a wee bit there.. (Most of) The rest of us respect these, but apparently big business gets the pass to flip us the little birdie on the same while in the eternal search for the almighty $$.. Surprised not, I am. :)

By: ncaissie

ncaissie — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:48:28 +0000

I agree with Roger.

By: Roger Milson

Roger Milson — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:45:57 +0000

Clearly these guys were just trying to make a buck. If they suffered mentally because their property was shown on Google Maps, clearly they have other more serious problems they need to take care of.