Woman Sues Google Over Street View Shots of Her Underwear 417
Kittenman writes "The Telegraph (and several US locals) are covering a story about a Japanese woman who had her underwear on the line while the Google car went past. She is now suing Google: '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.'"
Streisand Effect (Score:5, Funny)
Congragulations, miss. The entire readership of /. will now see your underwear.
Well done.
So? (Score:5, Funny)
Other commenters are wrong (Score:5, Funny)
I know many people are saying that she should not have left them out to dry in public view. She made her mistake long before that.
She is in Japan. She shouldn't have washed them in the first place; instead she could have sold them for a nice profit.
Re:So? (Score:5, Funny)
It was never really meant as a meme but rather a quick way to convey your concurrence to a statement.
Like the whole
tl;dr = Too Long Didn't Read
IANAL = I am not a Lawyer
LoL = Laugh out Loud
This = Indubitably my good sir! Your clever insight and concise conveyance of the subject matter at hand was quite enjoyable and I agree with your statement in every facet that one might be agreeable.
Re:Expectation of Privacy (Score:5, Funny)
Not really. If something is in public view, it could simply be photographed and published anywhere - without permission. That's the nature of "in public view". There's nothing inherently different about it being "on the internet" in these cases.
The lesson is, to co-opt a phrase, that people shouldn't air their clean laundry in public. :-)
Ha! (Score:4, Funny)
That'll teach her to air her dirty laundry in public!
(N.B. This joke would actually be funny if the laundry actually was dirty)
Re:Mental Illness (Score:2, Funny)
See here: http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1919386&cid=34630114 [slashdot.org]
This.
Re:Common sense says... (Score:5, Funny)
This is Slashdot, remember?
What exactly do you think will be the problem if a slashdotter will get playful with his computer?
Re:Common sense says... (Score:4, Funny)
I hate it when people try to talk to me while I'm fucking my girlfriend. If you can see that I'm busy STFU and wait until I'm finished asshole!
Seriously people, what's an extra ten seconds to you anyway?
Re:Common sense says... (Score:5, Funny)
Seeing those undies hanging there brings a whole new meaning to the word "on-line".