Internet accessibility of images amassed by governmental organizations, commercial entities and individuals is the basis of novel privacy violation claims. However, Internet distribution of images of both individuals and private places collected from public places remains lawful.
Uproar over such imagery has sprung up in a variety of situations. For example, residents in California’s Humboldt and Sonoma counties claim that their privacy was violated by a governmental action that provides Internet accessibility to digital maps composed of photographs taken within each county and others believed Google’s Internet publication of more than 10 million roadside images constituted a multitude of privacy violations. Moreover, individuals have been subject to privacy violation actions after posting images on the Internet with services like Flikr (a popular photo-sharing Web site), YouTube (a popular video-haring Web site) and even user-generated news Web sites.
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