A court has awarded an Argentine policeman $12,500 from Google after one of its Street View cameras photographed him off duty naked in his yard, enabling his bare buttocks to be exposed on the world wide internet.
The man, who hails from Bragado, a small town west of Buenos Aires, sued the internet giant in 2019, claiming it exposed him to ridicule at work and among his neighbors, CBS News and others reported.
He argued his privacy was invaded in the 2017 photo capture because he was behind a six-and-half foot wall.
The street capture showed his street and house number. Argentine TV covered the story and it was also widely distributed on social media.
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The recent award came from Argentine appellate judges, who overruled a
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