California Family Fights For Privacy, Relief From Cyber-Harassment

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday April 26, 2009 @02:46AM from the little-to-no-recourse dept.

theodp writes "Just days after his daughter Nikki's death in a devastating car crash, real-estate agent Christos Catsouras clicked open an e-mail that appeared to be a property listing. Onto his screen popped his daughter's bloodied face, captioned with the words 'Woohoo Daddy! Hey daddy, I'm still alive.' Now he and his wife are attempting to stop strangers from displaying the grisly images of their daughter — an effort that has transformed Nikki's death into a case about privacy, cyber-harassment and image control. The images of Nikki, including one of her nearly-decapitated head drooping out the shattered car window, were taken as a routine part of a fatal accident response and went viral after being leaked by two CHP dispatchers. 'Putting these photos on the Internet,' says the family's attorney, 'was akin to placing them in every mailbox in the world.'"

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Re:Likely to backfire by pxlmusic · 2009-04-26 03:18 · Score: 0, Troll

they do that here in droves.
atlanta is the rubbernecking capital.
fail.

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Re:You Can't Fight the Internet by Pig+Hogger · 2009-04-26 05:38 · Score: 0, Troll

She clipped another car then slammed in to a toll booth. She showed complete disregard for the well being of anyone else, which is pretty much the definition of a sociopath.

The environment where a father works as a real-estate agent, whose work is to artificially inflate the price of houses (and we have seen the worldwide economic collapse this has caused) and brings-in enormous amount of money is also very conductive to nurture sociopaths.
May his house plummet to 1/10th of it's value, and his mortgage rate raised 10% (and I'm generous! 25 years ago, my parents struggled with a 22% mortgage!!! Not a pretty sight.)