Google has been ordered to pay a Canadian woman $2,250 (£1250) for violating her privacy by showing a photograph of her cleavage on its Street View maps service.
A Canadian court ruled that the revealing photograph of Maria Pia Grillo leaning forward on the steps of her private property had violated her “modesty and dignity”.
Grillo had originally sued Google for $45,000, arguing that although her face had been blurred out in the image, her house and visible car registration plate made her identifiable, which she said had brought her mockery at work and caused her to suffer depression.
When the lawsuit was filed in 2011, Google agreed to blur out the image but refused to pay compensation.
“In addition to malicious comments and humiliation she suffered at work, the plaintiff, in particular, has experienced a significant loss of personal modesty and dignity, two values that she held and are eminently respectable,” said judge Alain Breault in his ruling.
Google has not made any comment about the decision.
