{"id":1681,"date":"2010-12-16T21:57:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T12:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-12-16\/1681"},"modified":"2010-12-16T21:57:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T12:57:32","slug":"only-in-japan-it-boggles-the-mind-to-wonder-what-laws-allow-this-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-12-16\/1681","title":{"rendered":"Only in Japan? It Boggles The Mind To Wonder What Laws Allow This To Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Collectively, Americans have a reputation for being a touch<\/span> litigious\n(such as someone suing McDonald's because their hot coffee was hot, for\nexample), but this article about a suit<\/span> in Japan perhaps takes the\ncake:<\/p>\n\n

Woman sues Google for displaying image of her hanging underwear in search results<\/a><\/center>\n\n

Someone took a photo from a public place that included within its scene\nthe publicly-visible view of her apartment building, including the\npublicly-visible view of the laundry she chose to hang outside on her\nbalcony in full view of anyone walking by. This photo was then put up by\nsomeone on some web page somewhere, and over the course of time Google's\nsearchbots found it and included it in Google's search results.<\/p>\n\n

And so, for crying out loud, this 20-something lady is suing Google for\n$7,000 “in consolation money and other payment”.<\/p>\n\n

In one Japanese-language news-discussion board I came<\/span> across, the first\ncomment (of 450+ that where there when I found<\/span> it) was simply the phrase\n“persecution complex”\n\n (\u88ab\u5bb3\u5984\u60f3<\/span><\/a>), which is putting it mildly.\n\nYet, as ridiculous as it is, her complaint made it as far as court,\nsomething that would not happen even in sue-happy America. I'd be very<\/span>\ninterested to know what laws have allowed it to get that far here. Do I need<\/span> to worry about what's in the background of photos I post<\/span> on my\nblog?<\/p>\n\n

I guess common sense is not enough... you really should know the local\nlaws, especially if they are pathetically stupid like the German laws that\nmake it illegal<\/a><\/i> to\ncall someone a nasty<\/span> name or even merely giving an unfriendly glance. I kid you<\/span> not. (Oh-oh, will Germany sue me because I called<\/span> their law\nstupid?)<\/p>\n\n

Anyway, if anyone has insight into specific Japanese laws in this area, I'd appreciate<\/span> a comment.<\/span>...<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collectively, Americans have a reputation for being a touch litigious (such as someone suing McDonald's because their hot coffee was hot, for example), but this article about a suit in Japan perhaps takes the cake:<\/p> Woman sues Google for displaying image of her hanging underwear in search results

Someone took a photo from a public place that included within its scene the publicly-visible view of her apartment building, including the publicly-visible view of the laundry she chose to hang outside on her balcony in full view of anyone walking by. This photo was then put up by someone on some [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}