Is taken up by Google Street View While he is barely naked in the shower of his garden, and for this reason a 56 -year -old man decides to sue the company, asking for compensation of 80 thousand euros. The fact occurred in Gallipoli, and aroused a certain surprise. The 56 -year -old is determined to go all the way, and the next October 2nd The hearing will be held before the judge of the Court of Lecce.
Everything started from a complaint filed by man. He said he was photographed In costume clothes while he was washing in the shower installed in the garden of his house. The images would then be used by Google Street View, which for years has been dealing with making increasingly detailed and faithful maps of the streets all over the world. The 56 -year -old, however, did not tolerate to see his images around the network, however without his consent. According to what is reported by The messengercome across those images caused him to him “Not a little embarrassment, extreme shame and nocument, as in all frames his face did not seem blurred and his person was well recognizable and clear”.
It seems that before taking legal action, the 56 -year -old turned to Google Italy and Google USA, sending some be. Then there would also be the request for help presented to Privacy Guarantor. However, nothing served to remove the images. Hence the decision to act legally. Not only that. Thanks to a technical report, the man managed to demonstrate that the road immortalized by Google Street View is pertinent to the living complex which also part of his home is also part: it follows that the road resumed is not public, therefore Google could not have immortalized it.
Google, on the other hand, rejected all charges. First it has unknown The images presented by man, stating that none of them are now on Google Street View. Google Italy then declared itself extraneous to the facts, as its task is to deal with advertising spaces. The lawyers of the Mountain View giant also said that the 56 -year -old, at the time of taking photos, was located “Outside the gate of his house and on the public road while wearing a swimsuit”. The subject’s face, they added, is blurred and unrecognizable.
Google, in essence, does not intend to pay for the kind of compensation.
In October the judge Alessandra Cesi will have to express himself on the matter. It seems that during the trial a new proposal will be advanced compensation.