Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 2, 2014 @10:50AM from the pay-the-piper dept.

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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Re:Makes Sense by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-02 11:11 · Score: 0, Troll

Its you who choses google for hosting. You're right: it should be you the responsible entity. But if you give control over whether the content is shown or not to google, they are responsible. Host the stuff yourself and you get the letters. And no google can take down content against your will, either on legal request, or because google got bought by iran and now requires nikab for all pictured females.