Google Street View, long established as a source for photos of unaware naked people, is being sued by a man in France because one of its camera-mounted cars snapped a photo of him pissing into a courtyard on his property and, as any of us surely would, uploaded it to the internet.
Google has once again added a stack of new Street View images to its amazing voyeur tool, bringing a selection of the world’s most popular city parks to its database.
Google Street View is a magical realm of accidental crimes in progress, fires and other assorted serendipitous fun. Now, you’ll be able to scroll around the inside of businesses! Which is cool — but here’s how it could be cooler.
Google’s hitting Switzerland where it’ll hurt, by threatening to take away their googlez (well, Street View), if the Swiss courts don’t overturn a ruling which forces Google to ensure anonymity for anyone who happens to be snapped for Street View.