Google street view: asmeninių neturtinių teisių apsaugos problematika

• Main Author: Bosak, Agata
• Other Authors: Mizaras, Vytautas
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: Lithuanian; English
• Published: Institutional Repository of Vilnius University 2012
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://repository.vu.lt/VU:ELABAETD2149479&prefLang=en_US

„Recent inventions and business methods call attention to the next step which must be taken for the protection of the person, and for securing to the individual what Judge Cooley calls the right "to be let alone" This idea of one‘s right to privacy was presented by two United States lawyers S. Warrend and L. Brandeis in 1890. The authors felt threatened by the growing number of tabloid press and new snap cameras. They were the first to publicly express the need to safeguard personal rights, such as a right to one’s image, a right to privacy, a right to be left alone. Today portable photo cameras are old news, but new technologies still seem to challenge our law systems. Such a novelty technology is definitely Google Street View, project, which enables to wander the streets of various cities all around the world without leaving the comfort if our homes. Today Street View is available on all the continents, including Antarctica. Google Street View was introduced in the United States in 2007, where law regarding privacy is not as sophisticated as the one in European Union. This was the reason why Google faced so many challenges, which were not an issue in the United States, once it launched the program in various European countries. This thesis examines two different approaches to protect personal rights, the one in the United States and the one in European Union. Research also includes examples of various cases against Street view and short history of the evolution of the right to privacy. Google Street View project still continues in various cities, Google cars were spotted in Lithuania and other neighbor countries, so it is important to establish, which actions can be considered lawful and which endanger people’s right to privacy.