The largest celebrity hacking has been going on for months already but the tides have finally changed its course last week. And now, it's time to pay.
Or at least Google may be the one paying the $100 million lawsuit if it doesn't do anything about the nude celebrity pictures scattered across its sites. Last week, high profile celebrity lawyer Martin Singer of law firm Lavely and Singer sent a letter to the Internet giant accusing the company for not doing anything about the issue and even trying to benefit from it. The letter was addressed to Google founders Sergey Brin, Larry Page, executive chairman Eric Schmidt, and some of its lawyers, Newsfactor.com reports.
In his letter, Singer criticized Google for being lax in doing any action just because the victims are celebrities with valuable publicity rights. He continued, "...you do nothing - nothing but collect millions of dollars in advertising revenue from your co-conspirator advertising partners as you seek to capitalize on this scandal rather than quash it."
The actress Singer is representing was never mentioned. However, it is likely that it is one of the most high-profile victims of the hack-dubbed as The Fappening-like Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lawrence-- who was seen in total nudity in her photos; and Amber Heard-- who had at least 50 pictures surfacing, one of which is rumored to contain a message for fiancé Johnny Depp; and Kate Upton. (via Dailymail.co.uk)
This seems to be the final wake up call for Google who immediately claimed that they already deleted tens of thousands of images and hundreds of accounts connected to The Fappening. The NationalPost.com reports that the Internet giant even claimed that these images were already deleted within hours that requests for taking them was made. Other than just deleting the photos, Singer also demanded that Google remove all of the images, suspend the original posters, and temporarily close the websites that have encouraged submission and distribution of the photos.
In a recent statement from the company, Google announced, "We've removed tens of thousands of pictures - within hours of the requests being made-and hundreds of accounts. The spokesperson from the company closed this statement by saying, "The Internet is used for many good things. Stealing people's private photos is one of them.
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