Germany: Google must have consent to publish property images

A state court in Hesse, Germany , has ruled in favor of a Frankfurt man who sued US tech giant Google over the publication of images on Google Earth and Google Maps that he argued invaded his privacy . The man had previously sued to have images of his Frankfurt home and property scrubbed from Google's Street View site as well as from Apple Look Around. The court found that Google had infringed on the privacy of the man and his family by publishing aerial images of their property on Google Earth, saying: "Nobody must accept the worldwide publication of aerial images of their property without their consent, at least when concerning areas of a property hidden from public view.