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    Re: Judge dismisses Google lawsuit

    Shame. I was hoping Google would lost this one.

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    Re: Judge dismisses Google lawsuit

    Im not legally minded but it sounds like google won because the law suit wasn;'t filed or followed through correctly?

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    Re: Judge dismisses Google lawsuit

    TSG has a nice article showing you everything you'd ever want to know about the Borings
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    Re: Judge dismisses Google lawsuit

    Street View is a nice feature in google maps, however in the hands of a criminal it could be dangerous.

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    Re: Judge dismisses Google lawsuit

    Quote Originally Posted by mycarsavw View Post
    TSG has a nice article showing you everything you'd ever want to know about the Borings
    I think they should be more concerned about the state of their lawn !.

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    Re: Judge dismisses Google lawsuit

    i can see why they are suing google now, they really need to fix that place

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    Re: Judge dismisses Google lawsuit

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    Shame. I was hoping Google would lost this one.
    I can see why but based on that article (hardly conclusing I know) the couple were just going for a quick buck and were seen for that. I'm glad it got thrown out.
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    Re: Judge dismisses Google lawsuit

    another example of a stupid american lawsuit, read this earlier and it made me chuckle. in a bit to get more privacy they've now let the whole world know who they are and where they live!

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    Re: Judge dismisses Google lawsuit

    I really don't see how these pics could be a breach of privacy or used by criminals. You could go to the place yourself and take better pics if you wanted to rob the place.

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    Re: Judge dismisses Google lawsuit

    Quote Originally Posted by Tr0gdor View Post
    I really don't see how these pics could be a breach of privacy or used by criminals. You could go to the place yourself and take better pics if you wanted to rob the place.
    I think the idea is that Google have done half the recce for you, so you could just sit back and sift through what externally seems to be the easiest targets. If it were a known haunt, then you wouldn't need pics at all.

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    Re: Judge dismisses Google lawsuit

    Quote Originally Posted by Tr0gdor View Post
    I really don't see how these pics could be a breach of privacy or used by criminals. You could go to the place yourself and take better pics if you wanted to rob the place.
    Well, breach of "privacy" might be putting it a bit strongly, but it's certainly intrusive, and potentially damaging.

    Let me give you an example.

    Suppose you own a house. Suppose your next door neighbour's house is a right tip. Now suppose you want to sell your home. Well, Google came round and took loads of pictures, including the tip your neighbour has, and stuck them online.

    I don't know about anyone else, but if I'm house-hunting, one of the factors is the nature of the 'locale' of any property I'm interested in. If you've got a load of details, you can potentially save a significant amount of time by previewing houses, and the surrounding area before going to see it. So, I preview your house on Google, browse about a bit, see the disaster zone that is your neighbour's property, and cross you off my list without ever seeing your place because, after all, I'm a busy bloke and I've got more property details than I can possibly hope to inspect, so I have to weed them down to a manageable number to physically visit. You, of course, get weeded. And not just by me.

    You've lost a potential buyer, or more likely, a LOT of potential buyers, all because of Google's pictures.

    But here's the thing. You neighbour, the one that didn't maintain his property, had peeling paintwork and an old car parked on his front lawn was like that because he was so old that he couldn't maintain the house himself and couldn't afford to pay someone to do it. But he died a few months ago, as it happens the day after Google took the pictures. You've now got a really nice young couple living there, and the first thing they did was replace all the windows, get the house painted top to bottom, have that old car removed and, of course, get landscape gardeners to redesign the garden to show-piece standard.

    So you lost a load of buyers, had trouble selling your house, probably had to cut the price to get people interested enough, especially in the current climate, to even bother to view it, and the reason for all that is that the Google photo was out of date.

    How often are Google going to redo all the photos they take, all over the world?? My guess is that it'll be years between, and for many locations, it may be never.

    And that's just one example.

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    Re: Judge dismisses Google lawsuit

    Quote Originally Posted by Saracen View Post
    But he died a few months ago, as it happens the day after Google took the pictures.
    thats rather coincidental - do you think their may be a connection?
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