Why Is Google Being Forced To Pay Woman Over $2 Thousand Dollars?

A judge has forced Google to pay a woman $2,250 dollars in fines (plus court costs). Originally, the Montreal woman was demanding $45,000 dollars for what she deemed as...emotional damage caused by the company, as well as depression and mockery from her co-workers at a “well-known bank” where she worked. But why?

We've heard about Google's camera equipped street cars making their way around the roads of the world, photographing and then compiling pics for the much used Google Street View. Seems one of the cars might have photographed a little more than what they were expecting.

Click HERE and scroll down to see the pic in question.

According to Gigaom via Business Insider

According to a 17-page decision, Maria Pia Grillo suffered shock and embarrassment when she looked up her house using Google Maps' Street View feature in 2009 and discovered an image that shows her leaning forward and exposing cleavage.

Even though the original image, which was snapped by one of Google’s camera-equipped cars, blurred out her face, the rest of the picture provided enough information to identify her

Two years later, Grillo began legal proceedings against Google demanding the company blur out her face, license plate and address. Google agreed to blurring out the images, but refused the fine...saying she was in a public place, and that the pic had nothing to do with any sort of emotional distress. The judge refuted Grillo's claim that the image had anything to do with any sort of mental conditions, and questioned why she started her legal proceedings two years after the picture was taken. However, the judge denied Google's public place defense. The judge went on to say that individuals do not forfeit their privacy rights simply by being in a location others can see them.