Woman sues Google for displaying her underwear in search results

[homasse]

Woman sues Google for displaying image of her hanging underwear in search results

FUKUOKA -- A woman here is suing search-engine giant Google Inc., saying her psychological condition worsened after discovering that a search for her address brought up a photo of her underwear hanging out on her veranda.The woman, who is in her 20s, filed suit

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[into_focus]

Did she put her underwear there?

[homasse]

Yeah--it's common in Japan to hang your laundry out to dry on your veranda.

[bestdaywelived]

Sorry, but in the US, Google does not owe her anything (beyond the fact that they didn't post the picture). The standard for something like this, if it caused harm, was what a reasonable or reasonably prudent person would experience, not someone with extreme mental illness.

If she's hanging up her undies outside, other people are going to see them. I don't know why she hasn't thought of that before.

[roguebelle]

If she's hanging up her undies outside, other people are going to see them. I don't know why she hasn't thought of that before.

This. I mean, this kind of seems like a "no duh" to me.

[bnmc2005]

The story doesn't say if this is "Streetview" or not. It certainly sounds like that since she mentions her address was there.

I'm not sure where she stands on this. They try to black out license plates and faces but ... um a bad laundry day. I dunno.

on the subject of Street View

[bnmc2005]

There are a number of blogs devoted to embarrassing, interesting, etc photos from Street View. And Google has taken care to remove them when complained about.

I wonder if she bothered to contact Google and request it be removed?

Side story:

Who else here surfs random locations on "Street View" to go on cyber-vacation? I spent three hours cyber-walking back alleys in Bath England one day. Oh, how I want to travel the world soooo bad.

Re: on the subject of Street View

[cupcakery]

I retraced my wandering around Paris through Street View. It's one of my favourite online time wasters.

Re: on the subject of Street View

[azure_rhymes]

Wandering around in Street View is how I never get lost. I can spend hours on Google Maps, just looking at stuff.

[bowtomecha]

if she looked at google maps to find that then yes they did put it online.

[bowtomecha]

the street view thingy i mean.