I got a chuckle out of this one. It seems that Google sent their cars that do
StreetView photography for Google Maps into a private neighborhood in Minnesota.
That neighborhood, North Oaks, demanded that Google remove all the images. As
the roads are private, Google potentially trespassed to take the pictures.
Google’s complied. From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune
article about
the case:
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