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The Sun
6 days ago
- The Sun
Man wins £9,000 from Google after being snapped NAKED in his garden by Street View car
A BLOKE caught starkers in his garden by a Google Street View car for all to see on the internet has won more than £9,000 in compensation. The man's bare backside was pictured by the tech giant's cameras as it shot routes around a small town in Argentina. 2 He claimed that he was stood behind a two metre wall when the embarrassing incident took place back in 2017. His bum was exposed for all to see on the platform, and the story was eventually covered by local Argentine TV as well as being shared widely on social media. The individual - who is a policeman - sought payment from Google for harm to his dignity. Last year, a court dismissed the claim for damages, ruling he only had himself to blame for "walking around in inappropriate conditions in the garden of his home". Google claimed the perimeter wall was not high enough. However, appeals judges have decided the man's dignity was indeed violated. They ordered Google to pay him £9,300 / $12,500. "This involves an image of a person that was not captured in a public space but within the confines of their home, behind a fence taller than the average-sized person. The invasion of privacy... is blatant," they wrote. The judges said "there is no doubt that in this case there was an arbitrary intrusion into another's life." They also concluded that there was "no justification for (Google) to evade responsibility for this serious error that involved an intrusion into the plaintiff's house, within his private domain, undermining his dignity. Shocking Google Street View pic 'showing body loaded into boot' leads to murder arrest after cops find butchered remains "No one wants to appear exposed to the world as the day they were born." Google has had a number of nude mishaps over the years, though many appear to be deliberate exhibitionists. They are eventually blurred out once detected. The firm also blurs out faces, as well as car licence plates. People can also blur out themselves, their house or a vehicle by submitting a request on Google's website. The judges pointed to Google's policy as evidence that it was aware of a duty to avoid harm to third parties. But in this case, "it was not his face that was visible but his entire naked body, an image that should also have been prevented." The court absolved co-accused telecoms company Cablevision SA and news site El Censor of liability for the image spreading, saying their actions had "helped highlight the misstep committed by Google." GOOGLE MAPS TRICK You can use augmented reality (AR) to explore the streets on Google Maps too. When looking up directions, users can select an augmented reality (AR) version of Live View. This means the app that not only gives you directions, but scans the surrounding area to offer users more details about the places they pass. This feature even highlights ATMs, and other pitstops in real time. Image credit: Getty
News.com.au
24-07-2025
- News.com.au
Taser cop Kristian White to learn fate after prosecutors' push for harsher sentence over Clare Nowland's manslaughter
A policeman who avoided jail after fatally tasering a nursing home resident could be handed a harsher sentence as soon as next week. Senior Constable Kristian White, now 35, was found guilty of manslaughter of 95-year-old Clare Nowland after he was called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home in Cooma in the state's south on May 17, 2023. White was sentenced to a two-year community order and 425 hours of community service, but the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is appealing the sentence. The judgment will be given on July 30. Mrs Nowland was described as being a 'very aggressive' resident who was holding two knives by a nurse, but was holding only one knife and a penlight when White found her sitting in an office after 5am. He repeatedly told her to drop the blade during a confrontation that lasted less than three minutes. When she failed to drop it, White said 'bugger it' before tasering her: Ms Nowland died in hospital days later. White was found guilty of Mrs Nowland's manslaughter in November last year following a NSW Supreme Court trial. White is expected to learn whether prosecutors were successful in their bid to impose a harsher sentence on him, with the matter listed for judgment in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA). Cop didn't give Ms Nowland 'any real chance' The DPP's case hinges on four grounds of appeal, including the sentencing judge made several errors by assuming both parties agreed White honestly believed his conduct was necessary, in his assessment of objective seriousness, and in finding that general deterrence had 'little or no role' or only a 'minor' role to play in White's sentence. The sentence is 'manifestly inadequate', the final ground claims. Crown Prosecutor Sally Dowling SC last month argued White did not give Ms Nowland – clearly vulnerable and disoriented – any 'real chance to avoid being tasered'. Footage of the fatal incident made it clear Ms Nowland didn't understand or hear White's instructions, Ms Dowling told a CCA hearing. 'The respondent did not give her any real chance to avoid being tasered,' Ms Dowling said. '(There were) many alternate actions that he could have and should have taken.' Ms Nowland didn't advance towards White at any point, and needed to hold onto her walker with both hands, Ms Dowling said, which all fell under the Crown's appeal of objective seriousness. She told the court it took White less than three minutes after first seeing Mrs Nowland to deploy his taser, which caused her to immediately fall and hit her head. 'She never regained consciousness after that fall, and that injury caused her death seven days later,' Ms Dowling said. White's lawyer, Troy Edwards SC, rejected the Crown's claims that Mrs Nowland posed no threat, arguing it was inconsistent with observations of the sentencing judge and witnesses. He also urged the court not to place emphasis on footage from the incident, but to rely on the accounts of witnesses who he said felt frightened as the incident unfolded.
Arab News
18-07-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Cop killed, five security men injured in separate attacks in Pakistan's Balochistan
QUETTA: A policeman was killed and five security men were injured in two separate attacks in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, provincial authorities said on Friday. In the first incident, unidentified assailants opened fire on a police vehicle in Balochistan's Mastung district, according to provincial government spokesman Shahid Rind. 'One official was martyred and three were injured in the firing,' he said in a statement. 'The injured officials were shifted to hospital for medical assistance.' Security forces reached the site and a search was on for the assailants, according to the spokesman. In another incident, armed men attacked a paramilitary Levies check-post in Sarband area of Mastung and injured two troops, according to a Levies statement. The attackers fled the scene after timely retaliation by Levies personnel. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. Balochistan, Pakistan's largest but most impoverished province, has been the site of a long-running insurgency that has intensified in recent months, with separatist militants attacking security forces, government officials and installations and people from other provinces, particularly Punjab, the country's most populous and prosperous province and a major recruitment base for the military. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) is the strongest of a number of insurgent groups operating in the mineral-rich region bordering Afghanistan and Iran who accuse the central government of stealing their resources to fund development in Punjab. The federal government denies the allegations and says it is working for the uplift of local communities in Balochistan, where China has been building a deep-sea port as part of its Belt and Road Initiative. Earlier this month, dozens of militants armed with guns and rockets stormed Mastung and vandalized a bank, tehsil and other offices, officials said, with a teenager killed and 11 others injured in the attack. On Wednesday, three people were killed and 12 others sustained injuries in Balochistan's Kalat district after unidentified men opened fire on a passenger bus headed toward Quetta, according to officials. The attack followed a similar assault on passenger buses in which armed men kidnapped and killed nine passengers, who hailed from the eastern Punjab province.
Malay Mail
23-06-2025
- Malay Mail
Chest bitten, face punched: Police remand two youths who allegedly attacked officer at Penang headquarters
GEORGE TOWN, June 23 — Two youths, aged 19 and 20, were remanded for three days after allegedly punching and biting a policeman at the Penang police headquarters (IPK) here. Northeast district police chief Assistant Commissioner Abdul Rozak Muhammad said the two men were behaving suspiciously near the entrance of the police headquarters at about 4.30pm yesterday. 'The policeman on duty at the IPK guard post detained the men due to their suspicious behaviour and brought them to the guard post for further investigation,' he said in a statement today. 'However, while inside the guard post, the two suddenly attacked the policeman, punching him in the cheek and biting his chest,' he added. He said the duo, believed to be inebriated, also hurled curses at the policeman before being arrested. 'The policeman suffered a swollen left eye and bruises on his chest,' he said. He added that both men, who are locals, have been remanded until June 25 to assist with investigations. The case is being investigated under Section 323 of the Penal Code for causing hurt and Section 14 of the Minor Offences Act 1955.
The Guardian
05-06-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern review – not your usual PM
Jacinda Ardern was the future, once. New Zealand's prime minister captured the world's imagination with her empathetic leadership, her desire to prioritise the nation's happiness rather than just its GDP, and her bold but deeply human approach to the early stages of the pandemic (though her 'zero Covid' strategy of sealing borders to keep death rates low came back to bite her). She governed differently, resigned differently – famously saying in 2023 that she just didn't have 'enough in the tank' to fight another election – and has now written a strikingly different kind of political memoir. It opens with her sitting on the toilet clutching a pregnancy test at the height of negotiations over forming a coalition government, wondering how to tell the nation that their probable new prime minister will need maternity leave. Ardern is a disarmingly likable, warm and funny narrator, as gloriously informal on the page as she seems in person. A policeman's daughter, raised within the Mormon church in a rural community down on its luck, she paints a vivid picture of herself as conscientious, anxious, and never really sure she was good enough for the job. In her telling at least, she became an MP almost by accident and wound up leading her party in her 30s thanks mostly to a 'grinding sense of responsibility'. (Since it's frankly impossible to believe that anyone could float this gently to the top of British politics, presumably New Zealand's parliament is less piranha infested). Her book feels constructed for an international audience, eschewing domestic political detail for events that resonated globally – like the 2019 terror attack on a Christchurch mosque, after which she led the nation's mourning with great sensitivity and rushed through gun control laws in a matter of weeks – and for the more universally relatable dramas of her private life. As a young politician, she'd bitten her tongue through years of sniping about whether she was only there for window dressing, plus endless public speculation about whether or not she was pregnant. When a broadcaster suggested, within hours of her becoming leader, that she owed it to the country to reveal whether or not she planned to have children, 'all of the times when I had said nothing … suddenly came crashing through to the surface'. On behalf of women everywhere facing intrusive questions from their bosses, Ardern issued a public rebuke that was already going viral by the time she left the studio. The irony, of course, is that for much of the time she was batting off such questions, she and Clarke Gayford, her then partner, now husband, were privately on the emotional rollercoaster that is fertility treatment, culminating in that surprise eve-of-election conception. What happened next suggests Ardern must be steelier than she's letting on. The new prime minister soldiered through her first crucial weeks in power keeping the pregnancy hidden, so queasy with morning sickness that she was terrified of vomiting on live TV, lying to her protection officers to cover up visits to her obstetrician. She scheduled a press conference 72 hours after giving birth on the assumption that it would be fine because 'Kate Middleton did it' (unsurprisingly, it was not fine). And she was back at work after six weeks, worrying both about being seen as not coping and about being seen as copying too effortlessly, lest she be turned into a stick to beat other working mothers with. As she frequently acknowledges, it took a village – Clarke as stay-at-home dad, her mother as backup, aides who babysat – and even then it wasn't easy. At one point during the pandemic, she sits down to play with her daughter and all she can see are Covid graphs: 'I wasn't there. Not all of me. And not even most of me.' It's not hard to understand how she eventually burnt out. But while all this makes for an emotionally rich and candid read, the downside of skipping the political detail is that it's hard to get a sense of how exactly her astonishing early popularity ebbed away. By the end, with New Zealand experiencing the same painful post-pandemic inflation as the rest of the world and anti-vaxxers camped outside parliament, the mood had turned ugly. Ardern seems largely untroubled by policy regrets, standing by her zero-Covid strategy – which worked at first, (albeit at great cost to New Zealanders stranded abroad when the borders closed) but was overwhelmed by the more infectious variants. She's also notably keener to dwell on what her tenure says about kindness and empathy being powerful mechanisms for changing lives than she is to engage with the critique that she failed to deliver on some of her more tangible promises around alleviating poverty. Nonetheless, I closed the book feeling a pang of nostalgia for a time when scrapping tax cuts and spending the money on a more generous safety net, or clasping immigrants to a nation's heart, (as she did after Christchurch) still seemed completely plausible things for a prime minster to advocate. A different kind of power, for what now feels like a sadly different world. A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern is published by Macmillan (£25). To support the Guardian order your copy at Delivery charges may apply.
