Oregon Woman Sues Yahoo for $3 Million

bigtallmofo writes "After notifying Yahoo that two member profiles about her were not authorized, Cecilia Barnes of Oregon is suing Yahoo for $3 million for failing to take down the profiles in a timely manner. The profiles allegedly set up by her ex-boyfriend contained nude photos of her along with her email address and work phone number. (Note: The member profiles have since been taken down by Yahoo)."

Comments

Adult Groups a Liability Risk

[geomon]

I think that portal-based adult groups will probably go "bye-bye" if they are viewed as a financial risk to the hosting site. Yahoo puts all of this webspace up without asking questions about the veracity of the information and then doesn't have the resources to properly police it. I'm sure MSN will drop theirs as well if this case goes against Yahoo.

I'm sure that this woman is not the first person who has had an ex-boyfriend/husband/lover post nude pictures of them on the net.

Re:Adult Groups a Liability Risk

[geomon]

People like this woman should take responsibility for their own actions.

She didn't post the photos in public.

You make nude photos of yourself then sorry, if they get posted somewhere its only your own fault and nobody else.

No, if someone steals your property it is the perpetrators fault.

No scruples, and no right to sue.

So whatever you do as an adult, with another adult, in the privacy of your own home, should be considered by a court in a civil action?

Dude, I think you are way off base on that one.

Re:Adult Groups a Liability Risk

[Retric]

He used said information as part of a larger act of fraud so he is clearly liable. He might have been allowed to post those pics and that information but he also impersonated him in chat sessions to get men to show up at her office thinking they where going to have sex with her.

Now AOL might not be required to take down her pictures and / or contact information but clearly letting him continue to use there system for months after they had been notified he was committing fraud with their system exposes them to some risk.

IMO 3mil seems like a reasonable level of compensation for an organization that willfully allowed such level of harassment to continue for months. It's not like she is trying to get them to verify all information in their system just to have a system to take information down in the event it's misused. Think of the risk they would be taking if the pictures where of a 13 year old and they waited months to take them down.

Re:Adult Groups a Liability Risk

[KarmaMB84]

When Yahoo drags their feet to remove someone's nude photos and fraudulent profiles with contact information tied to those photos, they SHOULD be sued into the ground.

Re:My idea for a new google product

[Leroy_Brown242]

hmmm, interesting idea.

But of the tons of people on the internet, how many would you REALLY want to see naked?

Forget fingers in food...

[null etc.]

This might become the newest husband-wife scam to extort money out of large companies.

Re:omg where r the pics!?111one a/s/l

[gowen]

Big fucking deal. You don't need to be of high moral virtue (whatever that might mean) to deserve sufficient privacy to keep private information off the net.

Re:Who's got the Mirror/Cache of the pics?

[JudgeFurious]

Everyone suggesting that anyone who got to these pictures share them is getting modded "Troll" but seriously now, how many people in here went straight for those pages and wanted to see them? People are (generally) hypocritical about things like this. They wouldn't want it to happen to them but they want to see it when it's someone else.

Asking for the pictures isn't being a Troll. It's being pretty much human. We're a species of voyuers for the most part.

And yes, I replied to this particular article just to make sure I could find the URL that the AC responding to it posted when I get home.

But at least I'm honest about it.