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Google fined for showing woman's cleavage on Street View

on Nov 1, 2014 | 0 comments

By Staff Writer

Google has been ordered to pay a Canadian woman $2,250 (£1250) for violating her privacy by showing a photograph of her cleavage on its Street View maps service.

A Canadian court ruled that the revealing photograph of Maria Pia Grillo leaning forward on the steps of her private property had violated her “modesty and dignity”.

Grillo had originally sued Google for $45,000, arguing that although her face had been blurred out in the image, her house and visible car registration plate made her identifiable, which she said had brought her mockery at work and caused her to suffer depression.

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Source: The Drum