Your Boring Life, Now Available Online: Analyzing Google Street View and the Right to Privacy

Authors

Jana McGowen

Publication Date

3-1-2010

Document Type

Comment

Abstract

Courts and legislatures must recognize that Street View's current and future impact goes far beyond a private individual with a camera, and they will have to develop a new way to resolve these kinds of privacy concerns in the era of the omnipresent camera. This Comment will weigh the policies on both sides of the issue and will look at one's expectation of privacy not only as where, location wise, a person expects to be private, but also in what circumstances one expects to be private and the consequences of private camera monitoring and publishing on the internet. If Google is correct, and there is nothing new about taking photographs in public areas, perhaps the massive organization, monitoring, storage, and publication of photographs of citizens, streets, and homes online is the problem. Perhaps courts should give greater scrutiny to massive monitoring endeavors, especially when photos of Americans and their homes serve a limited public interest.

DOI

10.37419/TWLR.V16.I3.6

First Page

477

Last Page

494

Recommended Citation

Jana McGowen, Your Boring Life, Now Available Online: Analyzing Google Street View and the Right to Privacy, 16 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 477 (2010).
Available at: https://doi.org/10.37419/TWLR.V16.I3.6