Google has been ordered to pay damages after a Street View image showed a man naked in his yard.
An appeals court in Argentina has ordered Google to pay around $12,500 to a man after a Street View image showed him naked in his backyard. The incident happened in Bragado, a small town west of Buenos Aires, when a Street View car captured the man standing unclothed behind a six-foot wall.
The photo, taken in 2017, also revealed the man’s house number and street name, making him identifiable to neighbors and colleagues. At the time, he was working as a police officer and later said the image left him humiliated once it was widely shared.
Appeals court slams Google for invasion of privacy
The man initially filed a lawsuit in 2019, accusing Google Argentina of violating his privacy, but the court dismissed the case, ruling that he had been careless by being outside naked. However, the officer appealed the decision, and in July 2025, the appeals court overturned the earlier ruling.
“No one wants to appear exposed to the world as the day they were born,” explained the judges via Fox Business.
However, Google argued that the fence around the property was not high enough to guarantee privacy, but the court disagreed, pointing to the company’s own policy of blurring faces and license plates as evidence that greater care should have been taken to obscure the image before it went live.
The appeals court also ruled that local media and a telecommunications company that later shared the Street View image were not responsible for the violation. Google has not commented publicly on the decision.
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