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GOOGLE: FORGET PRIVACY

There is no privacy.

Google, the indomitable search engine that knows where you live, contends that it has the right to put pictures of everything in the universe online.

The argument comes in a motion to dismiss a privacy lawsuit centering around its Street View mapping service.

“Today’s satellite-image technology means that even in today’s desert, complete privacy does not exist,” the Internet company’s lawyers wrote in court papers filed earlier this month and made public on The Smoking Gun Web site yesterday.

The filing is a response to a suit filed in federal court in April by Aaron and Christine Boring, who live in Pittsburgh.

The couple charge that they bought their home on a private street for a “considerable sum of money” and a “major component” of the decision to spend $163,000 was the desire for privacy. Google’s images of the house violate that privacy, they said.

Google contended that since mailmen and neighbors and Girl Scouts can walk onto your property, their omnidirectional-camera-equipped vans – which are out to map every street of America and beyond – should be able to snap pictures as well.

“Although they live on a privately maintained road, the road is shared by several neighbors and there is nothing around their home intended to prevent the occasional entry by a stranger on their driveway,” Google’s lawyers wrote.

“In today’s society people drive on our driveways and approach our homes for all sorts of reasons – to make deliveries, to sell merchandise and services door to door, to turn around. As a society we accept these ‘intrusions.’ ”

Dennis Moskal, the Borings’ lawyer, said Google’s argument left him searching.

“If you take Google’s response to the furthest conclusion, you could never have any reasonable expectation of privacy unless you fortified your house and barricaded yourself in,” Moskal told The Post.

He also took issue with Google’s claim that anyone can request removal of an image of their house or self.

“Is something ever really removed from the Internet once it’s sent out to a billion people?” he asked.

“It’s a face-off between big business saying that they can set forth what the law is – that they’re above the law.”

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