Overview

• Argentina’s appeals court overturned a lower court ruling, finding Google’s publication of the uncensored image a flagrant privacy invasion and awarding $12,500 in damages with daily fines pending its removal
• The photo was captured in 2017 by a Street View car in a small town as a police officer sunbathed behind a 6.5-foot wall in his private backyard
• Judges cited Google’s own blurring policies for faces and license plates as proof the company knew its duty to prevent harm and should have obscured the man’s full nude body
• The officer said the widely circulated image led to ridicule at work and among neighbors after it aired on Argentine television and spread online
• The court cleared telecoms firm Cablevision SA and news site El Censor SRL of liability, ruling their sharing of the photo only underscored Google’s error