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"Google Street View can help people get their bearings and explore new places over the Internet, but it also gives people (and some European governments) the heebie-jeebies by providing such a close look at real streets and homes. \nThe government in Germany banned Street View altogether, and in the U.S., judges say the cars used to photograph streets and neighborhood for Street View violated wire-tapping laws. But sometimes, it just catches people doing stupid things, serving up cold hard evidence in the courtroom.\nIt's a celebrity stalker's dream and a privacy buff's nightmare, and sometimes it gets people in truly ridiculous situations.\n1. Bad Pet Owner Sees Day in Court\nIn Taiwan, a court case over who was responsible for an unleashed dog that caused a bike accident used Google Street View as a central piece of evidence.\nA man accused of pet negligence insisted the dog did not belong to him. But Google's navigation service offered a key piece of evidence: The judge ruled in favor of the victim because a picture from Street View showed the dog in question standing in the accused man's yard, and police said there were no other dogs in the neighborhood.\n2. Man Uses Yard as Toilet, Becomes Village Laughingstock\nGoogle Street View incensed a man in France so much he decided to sue the search engine giant for violating his privacy.\nThe man was caught urinating in his backyard on Street View, and although his face is blurred out, neighbors could still readily identify him. He asked for 10,000 Euro in damages for his humiliation, and the case is still ongoing, though Google's lawyers were unconcerned.\n3. Scuba Divers Don't Always Like Cameras\nThough they use cameras to capture moments from their dives, not all scuba divers embrace Google Street View \u2014 two angry people clad in their diving gear chased the Google Street View car down the street in Norway.\nThese people were dressed head-to-toe in wetsuits, masks, fins and pitchforks, and tailed the Street View vehicle with their hands in the air. The Street View team caught the whole thing on camera, but the incident remains largely mysterious. One Gawker reader from Norway said it was a joke, though the people in the images have not been identified.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, tcp909"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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