p2pnet news view | Freedom:- Thanks to technology, “complete privacy does not exist,” reckons Google.

The view (literally) comes in a court case in which Do No Evil claims a Pennsylvania family has no legal grounds to sue it for publishing photos of their home on the “Street View” mapping feature, says The Smoking Gun.

“Responding to an invasion of privacy lawsuit filed by Aaron and Christine Boring, Google has countered that the couple ‘live in a residential community in the twenty-first-century United States, where every step upon private property is not deemed by law to be an actionable trespass’,” says the story, going on»»»

In a motion to dismiss the Borings’s federal complaint, Google’s six-lawyer team asserts that, “Today’s satellite-image technology means that even in today’s desert, complete privacy does not exist. In any event, Plaintiffs live far from the desert and are far from hermits.”

The Borings say a Google vehicle with a panoramic camera on its roof drove down a private road to take images of their Oakridge Lane home, says the post, adding in its dismissal motion, Google said it intends to prove there was ‘no clearly marked ‘Private Road’ sign at the beginning’ of the Borings’ street.

Google removed its Street View pix of the Boring residence and swimming pool after the couple filed its lawsuit in April, adds The Smoking Gun.

. .Stumble It!

The Smoking Gun – Google: “Complete Privacy Does Not Exist”, July 30, 2008

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