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Why do people sue Google and win for it taking pictures of their houses from the streets? It's all public access, right?
That's not at all what happened.
If you had read your own link, the second paragraph:
He won $16,000 because Google didn't blur his butt in the picture.
Why would it need to blur it? If you were passing by, I assume you'd see it, so you might as well take a pic and use it for your own corporate needs. That's the logic we're talking about here, though it's not my logic.
I didn't get into the details too much once I saw that it was completely irrelevant to their point.
If I had to guess, it would be because Google Maps gets a lot more views than the man typically recieves while walking naked in public.