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Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support

Posted by samzenpus on from the how-was-your-service-today? dept.

Tara Fitzgerald couldn't find the nude pictures she planned on sending to her boyfriend, but instead of just taking more, she decided to see if a Dell tech support call could fix her problem. Apparently the tech support guy found them. Unfortunately, he then put them up on a site called "bitchtara."

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  1. Let me be the first to say by Mirey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    lol

    1. Re:Let me be the first to say by ottothecow · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Story doesn't go far enough.

      If you read the linked article in TFA, you will find that she BOUGHT HIM A LAPTOP AND MAILED IT TO INDIA! wtf woman

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  2. Story is so absurd by jeffmeden · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So she took the pics and then "lost them"... but the support guy found them in her email. She obviously sent/received them at some point, and how she could just 'forget' they were in her email is hard to fathom. Then she sends the guy who WORKS FOR DELL a laptop? She may be the victim, but boy is she good at it.

    Oh, and of course: PICS OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN

  3. Re:Ha! by h4rm0ny · · Score: 5, Insightful


    Probably that Dell employees would actually respect customer confidentiality. Would it be any different if it had been a confidential business letter or accounts statement?

    I hope the employee has been dropped from a very great height by Dell. It doesn't inspire much trust in getting support from them.

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  4. Unfortunately by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only way to get action from companies today is to publish a bad PR story.

    How sad is that?

    That is the real problem, lack of accountability not the fact that it happens, that the only way to get it fixed is to make the company suffer publically.

  5. If true... by Antony+T+Curtis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If true, someone at Dell could end up having a friendly conversation with someone from the FBI.

    If it was only exposure of private data (pictures) then Dell may have gotten away with a just a civil resolution. If it is true that the tech extorted a laptop, then it becomes a criminal case. People can go to jail.

    This could become quite costly to Dell in terms of goodwill if proven that someone representing them extorted material goods from one of their own customers.

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  6. Re:Ha! by blair1q · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The fact that he's a Dell Employee is irrelevant (though no doubt the company will get sued, too). This is a simple case of theft and harassment. Jail for the perp, leave his boss alone.

    Next!

  7. Here's the problem by Mr.+Freeman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the video: "I trusted him because he was a Dell technician"

    Using my amazing powers of deduction, I have found this to be the root cause of the trouble.

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  8. Re:Too effing bad... sorry. by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whether or not a company or employee has an obligation to respect your privacy (I think they always should do so, but that's irrelevant), if you are going to give them the opportunity to violate it, you had better be prepared for the consequences if they do. While you may have legal recourse against them, that recourse might not be any real consolation, so one should not presume that their confidential information will stay confidential, if they are giving access to it to somebody else who has not actually *personally* earned we sort of their trust through an already existing relationship of some kind.

    Except, that is a shitty way to live. So we invented criminal punishments to deal with asshats.

    Throw the tech in jail.

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  9. Re:Ha! by Belial6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would agree with most of what you said...Except...

    Just as there is little the company could do to stop this, they also have to expect to pay for the damage done. That is the price of doing business. Being liable for damages and being bad are not the same thing.

    If one of the trees in my yard falls over in a storm and crushes my neighbors car, I am liable for paying for it. I am not a bad man because of it.

    This woman called Dell. She did not look up this perticular tech person and seek his help. She called Dell. Dell answered the phone. They used this tech as their agent, but the company responded. The woman did not have a business arrangement with the tech. She had one with Dell. Is Dell evil for hiring this guy? Not likely. Are they responsible for the actions of their agent. Yes.