A man captured naked in his yard with a Google Street View camera was awarded the court after his naked behind was published over the Internet so everyone could see.
Google will have to pay a compensation of $ 12,500 ( £10 lakh) to a man, a police officer, for violating his dignity.
A private moment published
The incident occurred in 2017 in the small town of Argentina when Google’s camera caught him in Buffy from behind at his own backyard.
The man was looking for a payment from the Internet giant for the damage to his dignity and claimed that he was in two meters (6.6 feet) when his naked image was captured along with the house number and the name of the street.
The picture and incident were later broadcast on Argentine television and widely shared on social media. He claimed that this public exhibition led to mockery at work and his neighbors, which caused the damage of his dignity.
So far a legal decision
Initially, another court rejected the man’s claim last year and decided to be accused of “walking in inappropriate conditions in the garden of his home”. Google also claimed that the perimeter wall was not sufficiently enough.
However, the Court of Appeal annulled this decision and strongly claimed that the dignity of the man was “obviously violated”.
“This includes a picture of a person who has not been captured in public space, but within the limits of their home, behind a fence higher than a person of average size. Invasion into privacy … is obvious,” the court wrote.
The judges stated: “There is no doubt that in this case there was any way to the life of another.”
She confirmed the ROCH Responsibility
The appeal judge did not find that Google would not find any justification to avoid liability for this serious mistake that included in the plaintiff’s house in his private domain, undermining his dignity.
“No one wants to appear exposed to the world as the day they were born.”
The court reasonably pointed to Google’s existing policy on how to blur the faces and license plates of people and vehicles in Street View as evidence that society was aware of its duty to avoid damage to individuals.
In this particular case, the judges stated that “it was not his face visible, but his entire naked body, an image that should also be prevented.”
The Court of Justice liberated the co -defendant telecommunications company Cablevision SA and the intelligence website El Cersor, decided that their action in spreading the image really “helped to emphasize Misstep committed by Google”.
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