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Japanese woman sues Google for displaying images of underwear

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Gaborn

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A Japanese woman is suing Google for displaying images of underwear hanging on her washing line on its Street View function.

The woman, who has not been named, is suing the internet giant for 600,000 Yen (£4,588) claiming the images caused her psychological distress, according to Japan's Mainichi newspaper.

The first hearing in the case was held this week in the southern city of Fukuoka.

"I was overwhelmed with anxiety that I might be the target of a sex crime," the woman told a district court. "It caused me to lose my job and I had to change my residence."

According to the suit, the woman first saw the photo on Google this spring when she did a search for her own apartment, where she lived alone.

The suit claims her existing obsessive-compulsive disorder was worsened by the anxiety brought on by the photo, as she feared that everything she was doing throughout the day was being secretly recorded.

The woman was subsequently fired from her job at a local hospital and moved to a new apartment.

The newspaper said Google officials were looking into the facts of the case. The woman claims the image of her underwear was removed at around the same time she filed the suit in October.

"I could understand if it was just a picture of the outside of the apartment, but showing a person's underwear hanging outside is absolutely wrong," the woman said.
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ChiTownBuffalo

Either I made up lies about the Boston Bomber or I fell for someone else's crap. Either way, I have absolutely no credibility and you should never pay any attention to anything I say, no matter what the context. Perm me if I claim to be an insider
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FlightOfHeaven said:
If you put your laundry to air outside, expect it to be seen.

ESPECIALLY IF IT'S IN A GODDAMN APARTMENT
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There's a difference between "seen by your neighbours" and "put on the Internet"
 
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Jeff-DSA

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How is that traumatizing if she was leaving them out in plain view in the first place? Odds that her last name is Sosumi?
 
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Kurtofan

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Jeff-DSA said:
How is that traumatizing if she was leaving them out in plain view in the first place? Odds that her last name is Sosumi?
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Seen by a few people =/= displayed on the Internet
 
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Sheik790

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Oh, Gaborn. I always look forward to your stories. I think the woman is over-reacting a bit. It's just clothing...though I guess we haven't seen the underwear in question :lol
 
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Jeff-DSA

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Kurtofan said:
Seen by a few people =/= displayed on the Internet
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So...seen by a few people she knows against seen by people who really won't be paying any attention and would never connect her to the underwear in the first place? Ridiculous.
 
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SouthernDragon

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Kurtofan said:
There's a difference between "seen by your neighbours" and "put on the Internet"
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Apparently she has no friends, so no one is looking up her apartment in the first place.

She's just paranoid and has mental issues, as told in the article itself.
 
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Kurtofan

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Jeff-DSA said:
So...seen by a few people she knows against seen by people who really won't be paying any attention and would never connect her to the underwear in the first place? Ridiculous.
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Who cares about neighbours?
And she got fired, so people who wouldn't have seen the underwear saw it.

Glad people are okay with Google spying on the world.
 
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Drkirby

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Kurtofan said:
I don't know, losing your jobs over pants seems a tad extreme.
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It sounds like the stress over her underwear caused her to loose her job. I wouldn't want to employ a paranoid person unless they were damn good at their job.
 
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skyfinch

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heliosRAzi said:
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Imagine if you bought panty number A3 and as the panty is about to fall, it gets stuck in the spring like most things inside vending machines. The next perv would get 2 for the price of 1!
 
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Jeff-DSA

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Kurtofan said:
Who cares about neighbours?
And she got fired, so people who wouldn't have seen the underwear saw it.

Glad people are okay with Google spying on the world.
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Seriously? Her underwear was out in plain view. Some tourist could have just as easily snapped a picture, uploaded it to flickr, and it could have been seen by thousands that way. Could she then sue the tourist? What if some kid was recording a video out front of her place and something he did turned it into a YouTube sensation with her underwear in the background?

If you don't want stuff that makes you feel uncomfortable seen, don't put it out in plain view. Period.
 
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Noshino

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Kurtofan said:
Who cares about neighbours?
And she got fired, so people who wouldn't have seen the underwear saw it.

Glad people are okay with Google spying on the world.
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The only way that would have happened is if someone was actually looking up her address...

and even then, have you seen the quality of google map images?

If she is worried about "spying" then she shouldn't be living in an apartment in the first place...


Oh, and if you are worried about "spying" then get the hell out of the internet.... :lol
 
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Neuromancer

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"Japanese woman sues Google for displaying images of her underwear" might have been the better thread name, not that it matters but still.
 
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Kurtofan said:
Who cares about neighbours?
And she got fired, so people who wouldn't have seen the underwear saw it.

Glad people are okay with Google spying on the world.
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The article doesn't read like she got fired as a direct result of her underwear being displayed on Google maps. Considering her mental instability, she probably flipped out and starting acting all weird at work after finding the image and got fired because of that.
 
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Joe

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Change "Japanese woman" to "Florida woman" and this thread would have had a completely different tone.
 
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Big One

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This isn't that image with the cute Japanese girl cuddled in a basket, is it? I remember that one having laundry in it.

Edit: Oh the actual article has an image of the underwear, should've been posted in OP!
 
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zoku88

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Kurtofan said:
Glad people are okay with Google spying on the world.
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There's no expectation of privacy in public.

That's why, for example, people can publish pictures of crowds.

spindashing said:
HOLY SHIT

HOLY SHIT

google "spindashing asshole" go to images. the first picture oh my god I need help :lol :lol :lol :lol
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Victoria Justice?
 
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panda21

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yeah i'm guessing if you are paranoid about being filmed all the time, that might start to creep into work.

i know its kind of amusingly weird but she's obviously mentally ill, kind of sad that people have to live with that much distress. she needs help, not getting fired and filing an insane lawsuit.
 
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mollipen

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Kurtofan said:
Glad people are okay with Google spying on the world.
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Any random person walking down the street could have seen what Google took a photo of from the street.

Also, "spying" implies the act of specifically gathering information on one or multiple targets. This was one (or a couple) of hundreds of thousands of photos taken in order to put together a mapping service.
 
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Gaborn

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Big One said:
This isn't that image with the cute Japanese girl cuddled in a basket, is it? I remember that one having laundry in it.

Edit: Oh the actual article has an image of the underwear, should've been posted in OP!
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I'm not sure that it wasn't just a stock photo of underwear on a clothesline.
 
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