This guy was caught by Google cameras in a pissy situation. Hit the jump for the full story.
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A man in France has sued Google because a Street View photo shows him in his front yard taking a leak. The middle-aged man lives in a small village and says the photo has made him a laughingstock in the community.
He wants the photo removed, plus €10,000 — or some $13,000 — in damages, Reuters reports.
“Everyone has the right to a degree of secrecy,†says Jean-Noel Bouillard, the unnamed man’s lawyer. “In this particular case, it’s more amusing than serious. But if he’d been caught kissing a woman other than his wife, he would have had the same issue.â€
By and large, Europeans have taken a harder stance than Americans in recent years against the substance and amount of information Internet companies such as Google and Facebook are able to collect from users. France’s official data-protection agency has launched an investigation into whether Google’s new privacy policy conflicts with European law.
The litigious urinator’s face is blurred out in the Street View photo in question, but he says that hasn’t stopped fellow villagers fron recognizing him. Reuters reports that the man thought he was in privacy when he relieved himself in November 2010 in his yard behind a closed gate. But a Street View camera still got him. Many of Google’s Street View cars have cameras mounted to rooftop stanchions.
A court in the nearby city of Angers is scheduled to give a verdict on March 15, according to Reuters.
