Aaron and Christine Boring are a couple from Pennsylvania who took Google to court back in 2008 because the Google’s Street View Car took pictures of their house. The thing is that the Street View Car had no businesses taking those pictures; the overzealous driver of the car trespassed on the Borings property to snap the shots. The driver went up a clearly marked private road to take the pictures.
After this incident the Borings sued Google. In February 2009 a court of a law dismissed all but one charges against Google; the court dismissed injunctive relief, unjust enrichment, common law negligence, public disclosure of private facts, and intrusion into seclusion. The Borings also accused Google of trespassing; the court dismissed this as well.
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But just like The Pirate Bay, the Borings were not about to let this go. They appealed the case and got lucky – at least luckier than The Pirate Bay. This time the court of law did not dismiss the trespassing charge. In February 2010, the appeals court found that they could pursue their allegation of trespassing. Earlier this week the Borings and Google came to an agreement.
So what happened? The Mountain View-based search engine giant admitted it is guilty of trespassing and agreed to pay the Borings the incredible amount of …$1. That’s one dollar, but “one sweet dollar of vindication,” the Borings said. “Google could have just sent us an apology letter in the very beginning, but chose to try to prove they had a legal right to be on our land. We are glad they finally gave up,” the couple added.
“This is about right and wrong,” said Gregg Zegarelli, the Borings’ attorney. “Maybe my client and I are hopeless romantics, but I suppose some people said the same thing in 1950 about a male executive calling female staff 'sweetie/honey,' or African Americans just sitting a few seats farther in the back of the bus.”
Aaron and Christine Boring are a couple from Pennsylvania who took Google to court back in 2008 because the Google’s Street View Car took pictures of their house. The thing is that the Street View Car had no businesses taking those pictures; the overzealous driver of the car trespassed on the Borings property to snap the shots. The driver went up a clearly marked private road to take the pictures. 