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Outed blogger who flamed model angry at Google

Wed Aug 19, 2009 10:30 PM EDT
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NEW YORK — A blogger who called a magazine cover model offensive names on a Web site says Google failed to protect her right to privacy.

Rosemary Port tells the New York Daily News in Sunday editions that she's angry that Google unmasked her after a Manhattan judge forced the company to reveal her identity.

Google says users agree to a privacy policy that allows the company to share personal information if required by a legal action.

Port was identified as the author of a site on Google's Blogger.com that had published anonymous remarks about Vogue cover model Liskula Cohen's hygiene and sexual habits.

Cohen sued to have the blogger identified, arguing that the comments on the site were defamatory.

But Port says that her privacy was violated and she has a right to her opinions.

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maddad

Port says that her privacy was violated, and that she has a right to her opinions.

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Reply#1 - Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:08 PM EDT
USAF Vet-923294

Port was identified as the author of a site on Google's Blogger.com that had published anonymous remarks about Vogue cover model Liskula Cohen's hygiene and sexual habits.

How would she know about her hygiene and sexual habits?

Any intentional false communication, either written or spoken, that harms a person's reputation; decreases the respect, regard, or confidence in which a person is held; or induces disparaging, hostile, or disagreeable opinions or feelings against a person.

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I don't think the blogger has a leg to stand on and is in big trouble. Unless she can prove her statements.

Google was ordered by a judge to give her up, that trumps any privacy she could have reasonably expected.

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Reply#2 - Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:12 PM EDT
Sgt. Pepper

Google was ordered by a judge to give her up, that trumps any privacy she could have reasonably expected.

Your right about that. Cohen most likely served a Doe Subpoena to blogger.com, which does not required them to notify Port.

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#2.1 - Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:10 PM EDT
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StarSmiles

Interesting article and message reply links, I always do my best not to inflame anything or anyone. Even in creating a site for others to use one has to agree not to let that site be used towards forms of malice, ill will, spite, spitefulness; animosity, enmity; malevolence; venom, hate, hatred; bitterness, rancor.

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Reply#3 - Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:59 PM EDT
Sgt. Pepper

I recall the story of John Seigenthaler, who was assistant to RFK when he was attorney general, found out that a Wikipedia user changed his biography to make it look like he was a part of the JFK assassination. It just shows how the damage done by a meaningless prank is magnified due to these types of sites.

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#3.1 - Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:47 AM EDT
StarSmiles

Good link Sgt., yes I remember that. People thought the site was going to cease because of it when it was happening . Did they decide it was a prank though?

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#3.2 - Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:21 AM EDT
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