The man granted $ 12,500 after Google Street View captured him naked in his patio in Argentina

An Argentine captured naked in his patio by a Google Street View A court has granted a camera compensation after his nude behind was dotted online so that everyone saw him.

The police had sought the payment of the Internet giant for damage to his dignity, arguing that he was behind a wall of 6 1/2 feet when a Google camera captured him in the fan, behind, in little Argentina in 2017.

Their house number and its name also were exposed, they were broadcast on Argentine television that covers the story and was shared widely on social networks.

The man claimed that the invasion exposed him to ridicule at work and among his neighbors.

Last year, another court dismissed man’s claim for damage, dating that he was only to blame for “walking in inappropriate conditions in the garden of his home.”

Google, meanwhile, said that the perimeter wall was not high enough.

The appeals judges, however, concluded that the dignity of man had been flagrantly raped and gave him an amount in Argentine pesos equivalent to approximately $ 12,500, payable for Google.

“This implies an image of a person who was not captured in a public space but within the limits of their home, behind a higher fence than the person of average size. The invasion of privacy … is shameless,” they wrote.

The judges said that “there is no doubt that in this case there was an arbitrary intrusion in the lives of another.”

And they discovered that “there was no justification for (Google) evading the responsibility of this serious error that involved an intrusion in the claimant’s house, within his private domain, undermining his dignity.

“No one wants to appear exposed to the world as the day they were born.”

The judges indicated the Google policy of blurring faces and plates of people and vehicles photographed for Street View as evidence that I was aware of the duty to avoid damage to third parties.

But in this case, “it was not his visible face, but his entire bare body, an image that should also have been avoided.”

The Court acquitted the coaccusado of the Telecommunications Company Cablevision SA and the news site the responsibility censor for the dissemination of the image, saying that their actions had “helped to highlight the false step by Google.”

On a website on its street view policy, Google says it has implemented measures to protect people’s privacy when images are published on Google Maps.

“We have developed a vanguard -face blur technology and registration plate designed to blur faces and identifiable plates within the images that are Google in Street View,” says Google.

The company adds that “if you want us to fell all your house, car or body, send a application using the” report “report a problem.”

In 2019, According to the reports, Google agreed To pay a $ 13 million agreement on the collection of private information of the company through its Street View project.

In 2010, Google admitted who invaded when he took a photo of a house in the Pittsburgh area for his street view service, but only paid $ 1 in damage to a couple he demanded.

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