Man Gets $12,500 From Google After Street View Exposed His Bare Butt To The World

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A small spot of exhibitionism tin pay, arsenic sites for illustration OnlyFans person proven, but those sites are competitive, they tin return existent clip for you to build up a following, and nan money tin beryllium conscionable nan merest trickle — wouldn't it beryllium bully if location were an easier measurement to rake successful a bunch of money from conscionable a azygous photo? Well, an Argentinian man recovered nan solution: Have Google return Street View photos of your bare ass, and writer them for $12,500 complete it. 

Google captured nan Argentinian man retired successful his yard, cheeks successful nan wind, pinch a Street View camera successful 2017 according to CBS News. The man wasn't rather nan exhibitionist nan communicative makes him sound, though — he was hidden down a 6.5-foot gangly obstruction that obscured him from position by all but nan tallest NBA constituent guards. He'd taken measures to guarantee his privacy, to make evening retired those tan lines astatine location a viable option, but nan tallness of Google's cameras circumvented his fencing. Images of his nude rear, which he'd taken those privateness measures to protect, were past posted connected Street View without nan aforesaid censoring that it applies to faces and licence plates. 

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The man's image was dispersed crossed section news and societal media, paired pinch nan reside wherever nan photos were taken — his location address. He based on this was a usurpation of his dignity, 1 that he'd taken reasonable measures to forestall pinch nan fence. Argentinian courts initially changeable down his claim, awarding Google nan ineligible victory, but an appeals tribunal overturned that little determination and granted nan man $12,500 from nan tech company. The appeals tribunal ruled that nan fence's tallness did obscure nan sunbather from wide passers-by, and that Google had moreover considered nan anticipation of compromising photos erstwhile nan institution implemented its selective blurring. It simply neglected to blur this man's full entire ass.

Google does connection protections for those who wish to beryllium obscured from Street View, offering to blur full bodies aliases moreover homes, but specified a report-based process requires that personification beryllium made alert of their image first — a constituent astatine which nan imagery is already retired location successful nan world for each to see. The Argentinian man could person requested his photograph beryllium blurred, but he whitethorn good not person known it existed successful nan first spot until section news picked it up. While he's since made a beautiful penny disconnected his nation's appeals court, it sounds for illustration he would've preferred his spot of accidental exhibitionism person ne'er occurred astatine all. It conscionable goes to show: In a surveillance state, we're each camgirls. 

h/t Gizmodo