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Subject: Re: Google plans to put YOUR home on the Internet- whether you like Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:27:49 +0000 (UTC)

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:04:21 +1000, Sylvia Else wrote:

> louis14 wrote:
>> "lynx" wrote in message
>> news:lItgk.21003$IK1.17513@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>> Google to limit its Street View
>>>
>>> Article from: Sunday Herald Sun
>>>
>>>
>>> Sharon Labi
>>>
>>> July 20, 2008 12:00am
>>>
>>> GOOGLE has been forced to water down its plans to put photographs of
>>> every house in Australia on the internet.
>>
>>
>> Is this their stated aim, or is their aim simply to cover all the
>> streets and the above sentence is simply journalistic "licence"?
>>
>> My house is not visible from the street. You would have to come 50
>> metres down the drive to get a shot of it. Will they do that? Surely
>> that can't be legal.
>>
>>
>>
> It would be tresspass. If such a photograph appeared, you'd be able to
> force its removal.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2001/63.html