Couple Suing Google Maps For Private Residence Pictures

We’ve heard privacy launched its Street View photos last May, most of which have had little legal merit. However, this week a new lawsuit about Street View images could change that.

Aaron and Christine Boring (yeah, seriously) of Pittsburgh, PA, are the Smoking Gun, records indicate that was $163,000), than to file a public record with the address and photographs of your private residence?

However, the suit does get a bit more credible. It appears that Oakridge Ln terminates in the Borings’ private driveway. In the suit, they state that their property contains a 50-foot easement (presumably the road). So Google did, apparently, drive up their driveway and photograph their house, garage and pool. How this caused them $25,000 in damages remains to be demonstrated, of course.

But here’s one idea for a compromise: Google will destroy any photos taken from within fifty feet of the Boring house (ie on the Boring property). However, I’m not sure that just being on a private road, especially a portion not owned and controlled by the plaintiffs, constitutes an infringement of their privacy.

For images of the full court filing (and The Smoking Gun. I didn’t include photos of the Boring house here because, well . . . they’re boring