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Google fined for showing cleavage on street view

NEWSER) – The latestembarrassment for Google Street View: Google has been fined more than $2,000 after its mapping feature showed an image of a woman’s cleavage.

A Montreal judge found that Maria Pia Grillo’s privacy was invaded in having “part of her breast exposed,” Gigaom reports, citing local media. The Canadian woman looked up her house on Street View in 2009 and found the picture, in which she’s sitting on her front stoop, leaning forward and displaying her cleavage. Her face was blurred, but not enough to make her unrecognizable. She says she complained to Google soon after and got no response, then sent Google a letter arguing that she was “at the mercy of potential predators” thanks to the picture; the company says it never got the letter, Ars Technica reports.

And so in 2011 Grillo filed a complaint against Google, demanding it blur the rest of her body and her license plate (shown in the photo), as well as pay her $45,000 Canadian for emotional damage she said she suffered as a result of the photo (including mockery from colleagues at the bank she worked at; she ultimately quit her job).

Read more at usatoday.com

 

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