I was naked in the yard of my house, and then I clicked...Man wins Google Street View
Jul 25, 2025
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According to foreign media such as the Daily Mail, an Argentine police officer won a lawsuit filed against Google for privacy violations after his naked photo was posted on Google Street View and received compensation.
Police officer A, who lives in Bragado, Buenos Aires, Argentina, was photographed by a Google vehicle while naked in the front yard of his house in 2015. The photo was posted on Street View, and the image spread quickly as a local broadcaster featured it.
The photo clearly showed his hips and back, and he later learned that he was exposed through the broadcast.
Later in 2017, he filed a lawsuit against Google Argentina for damages, claiming that this caused ridicule and inconvenience from neighbors.
In the first trial, the judges said the person in the picture could not be identified, and the location was not a private space that could not be identified on a public road", and ruled against the plaintiff. The court ruled that "The place in question was the yard, which was sufficiently visible to the surrounding people even over the fence, and the plaintiff's own carelessness was the biggest cause."
However, the officer filed an appeal, and a recent civil appeals court overturned the previous ruling, acknowledging Google's responsibility.
The court found that "a clear invasion of privacy in that the address of the house is identifiable in Street View, and the full-body nudity of the front yard and the figure is identified over the fence.'
As a result, Google Argentina and others were sentenced to compensate plaintiff A for about 16.3 million Argentine pesos (about 18 million won), including interest after September 27, 2017. In addition, the court said that if the photo has not yet been deleted, Google will have to pay an additional fine of 100,000 Argentine pesos (about 110,000 won) every day.
"We acknowledge the public interest and function of Street View, but Google cannot be free from responsibility if an individual's body is exposed in an identifiable manner," the court said in its ruling. "Even if the face did not appear in this case, it was clearly an image that should be protected in terms of full-body nudity", he pointed out.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
