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which part of the HRA are they breaching?
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Article 8 . There is precedent set from a case in 1995 where a guy tried to kill himself and the newspapers published photographs. He sued and won.
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Besides European data protection and privacy laws, Google street view must face the rules established by the European Convention on Human Rights. Public photographs of identifiable individuals taken in public streets which constitute a "disproportionate and unjustified interference" with an individual's privacy life violate Art. 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. This is a ruling by the European Court on Human Rights in a 1995 case. An individual was photographed when trying to commit suicide in a public street. The photos were widely distributed by the media. The individual survived and the European Court on Human Rights held that the photos were a "disproportionate and unjustified interference" in plaintiff's life. It is worth noting that the Convention on Human Rights applies to government actions rather than private actions. Yet according to some precedents, individuals file actions under the Data Protection Act and the court may consider the individuals' human rights when deciding the case.
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Google has suggested they would blur the faces of people, but it is not known if this would be acceptable yet.
http://www.cdt.org/privacy/eudirecti...irective_.html
http://www.hri.org/docs/ECHR50.html