Boring couple Aaron and Christine have lost their case against Google for invading their privacy by publishing a snap of the outside of their house on its Google Earth site.

US magistrate judge Amy Reynolds Hay said that Mr and Mrs Boring had failed to prove their case.  They wanted  Google to pay them cash damages for using a picture of their Pennsylvania property snapped from a private road.

The charged Google with trespass, negligence, invasion of privacy, and unjustly enriching itself by profiting from the photo of their property. However Hay concluded the accusations were legally unsustainable  and were based on inferences unsupported by facts.

She said that the claim failed to meet a legal standard of "highly offensive to an ordinary reasonable person" and that there was no convincing proof the couple was harmed by the Street View picture.

While people might be miffed by the privacy implications of Google Maps, it is hard to believe that any would suffer shame or humiliation.