The Fappening: Google Removes Thousands Of Leaked Photos After Celeb Lawsuit Claims Search Engine Co. Made Millions From 4Chan Hacks
Celebrity News Fappening. According to recent reports on the Internet, Google faces a $100 million lawsuit for 'making millions from the victimization of women' and 'perpetuating the despicable conduct of habitual pervert predators' since it did not remove the Fappening photos. The Fappening victims include including Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Kirsten Dunst and Amber Heard. The accusation was made by an attorney representing the victims of the celebrity nude photo hacks. Some reports allege Google has made millions from the nude photo leak.
About a dozen of the celebrities affected by the hacking have said they will sue the Mountainview, California-firm for not removing private photos from Google's search index and subsidiary websites. The celebrities are represented by a famous LA entertainment attorney named Marty Singer.
Keeping the names of the celebs unnamed, Marty Singer wrote in a letter, that these female stars would sue Google for 'blatantly unethical behavior', knowingly accommodating, facilitating and perpetuating unlawful conduct of hackerd," the Telegraph reported.
Mr. Singer continued to say in the Telegraph report: "Google knows the images are hacked stolen property, private and confidential photos and videos unlawfully obtained and posted by pervert predators that are violating the victims' privacy rights, yet Google has taken little or no action to stop these outrageous violations."
The lawyer apparently sent a notice four weeks ago, but the images in question are still shown on YouTube and Blogspot. He also claimed that Google sites benefitted from ad revenue that was brought in by celeb photos.
Addressed to Sergey Brin, Erin Schmidt and Larry Page, the letter was titled, "Google's Repeat Copyright And Privacy Violations In Connection with Hacked Photo Scandal".
A spokesman for the Mountainview-based search engine firm said "We've removed tens of thousands of pictures -- within hours of the requests being made -- and we have closed hundreds of accounts. The Internet is used for many good things. Stealing people's private photos is not one of them".
He added, although copyright notices have been issued to remove photos for websites like YouTube, but users continued to post them.
