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Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos

Dave Knott writes A Los Angeles lawyer representing over a dozen female celebrities, is threatening to sue Google for $100 million US over nude photos leaked online from personal iCloud accounts. The law firm Lavely & Singer accuses the web giant of "accommodating, facilitating and perpetuating" the distribution of the photos when it failed to remove the images from its search results. The stars involved in the law firm's action were not named, but the law firm alleges many of their photos still exist on Google sites like BlogSpot and YouTube four weeks after the firm ordered them taken down.

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  1. Makes Sense by l0ungeb0y · · Score: 5, Funny

    These photos were leaked on the Internet, and Google is like King of the Internet and can control and censor every last thing that happens on it.

    1. Re:Makes Sense by Fwipp · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ah well, at least that older generation is dying off and being replaced by the web-savvy youngsters. :)

  2. Re:Girls by umafuckit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, they're not suing for sales lost on their cum shot photos.

  3. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are those actual news items or made up? ...

    I can't tell any more.

  4. We understand by Charliemopps · · Score: 5, Funny

    The response from Google:

    "We understand your concern and want to help! Unfortunately due to the technical limitations of... well... reality, we cannot eliminate these photos from existence. But still, we refuse to take part in this invations of your privacy and after much diligence we think we've found a solution to this problem. Hereafter searching for the names of any person found in this lawsuit will result in nothing. The term "Jennifer Lawrence" will be ignored in all searches hereafter as well as every other actress named in this suit. Thank you and happy Googling!"

     

  5. Re:Girls by arth1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're nudie

    No, I'm not. Wearing PJs, but what's it to you?

  6. I need a link by Curunir_wolf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pictures or it didn't happen!

    --
    "Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
    --- Jerry Garcia
  7. Re: Possible? by freeze128 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Have you seen some of the camera work in porn? I think they already do.