Posted on 06/24/2013 11:00:31 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
When bikini-clad Chelsea Chaney posed next to a cutout of Snoop Dogg during a family vacation, she had no idea that the photo would be shown to hundreds of strangers at a Fayette County Schools district seminar. An administrator used the photo to demonstrate the dangers of posting to social media.
You never know who’s creeping through your Facebook profile.
To prove that point, a high school administrator in Fayette County, Ga., grabbed a revealing photo from a student’s Facebook page and showed it to hundreds of students and teachers at a districtwide seminar.
The student in the photo, 17-year-old Chelsea Chaney, is now suing her district for $2 million, saying the picture was used without her permission.
In the photo, taken during a family trip, Chaney wears a red bikini and poses next to a cardboard cutout of rapper Snoop Dogg. The young woman, now a college freshman at the University of Georgia, says she posted the photo to the social media site thinking that only her friends and friends of friends could view it.
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just a hint but the name is a dead giveaway in this case.
was it? heck if it seems familiar.
I didn't get 2¢.
I had a housemate that appeared in a brochure for his school, about 5 years after graduation. He was apparently in a bike race, or training with a couple of others..
He, OTOH, was considering donating to his school because of the photo.
17? Mama had signed off on the navel bling apparently...
Would be more interesting to see who at the school was checking out her facebook page to find this half dressed school girl.
so some moron uploads a photo to the internet, and is surprised that its not private?
frivilous lawsuits like this are the reason people hate lawyers
ah, the good old days. when women neither bathed nor shaved, and LBJ was president
i think that was also Liberace’s motto
‘Potent Males’ Alex.
For the Daily Double,
“He points at nubile women, says ‘Booyah!’ and they are nine months pregnant.”
Who is Chuck Norris?
Five will get you ten she has a matching tramp stamp.
I love the attorney who when asked what law the school violated could only say federal law, state law, and the U.S. Constitution. My guess is he took several attempts to pass the bar examination.
She posted the picture in a public domain. She is the one who cause her own problem. Yet she wants $2 million to prove she is a moron?
As Handel of Handel on the Law would say, “...where I tell you, you have no case.”
Other posters already commented on that, but let me add a few words. In essence, if you upload a photo somewhere (be it FB or your own Web site,) you give permission to everyone who can access that photo to see it. But you have no technical means of preventing copying of that information. The picture can be saved with right click of the mouse; if that is blocked, the entire browser window can be captured; failing that, the screen can be photographed with a camera.
This is a serious problem when you need to restrict access to information - such as to classified information. There were several leaks recently; regardless of their merits, they were technically possible because the information was exfiltrated, by one method or another; on tapes, on a CD-RW, or even in someone's head. Things that are seen by another person are no longer yours alone.
This is a good illustration of value of old photo albums. They always remain under your control. People can see them if you allow; but they cannot copy. Images that are not copied are pretty safe, just because humans are so bad with memorizing and duplicating images. But even if an artist sees such a photo, all he can do is to make a painting that will be similar, but still his own work.
So the final answer to all that is simple. No, once you publish a digital document you cannot control it anymore. A trusted friend may show it to a less trusted friend; the latter will make a copy and post it somewhere where everyone in the world can see it.
What can you do? The solution is simple. Keep your photos in your physical possession. Take them, print them at home, and put in albums to show to your friends. Keep the digital originals on your computers; encrypt them if you can. It may be an overkill with 99.999% of photos, but it takes only one breach of security to hurt you.
This girl has two legal hurdles- one non-registered material is much harder to defend in court; two; she did not limit access to her account...
As of the point in time at which she placed it on Facebook it is no longer hers.
She has nothing to do with this photo. If there is going to be an argument it will be between the Zuckerberg and the consultant.
She is irrelevant.
The other thing that's creepy is that everyone's a spy, with an embarrassing picture just a click away on someone's smart phone.
I do miss the days of not having to worry about this stuff every minute....to know that there were places where people could be their imperfect selfs.
Could have been worse. Like Gilmer County. At least this one has teeth...
The school has a strong argument for fair use insofar as copyright is concerned. If the seminar stated or even implied that she was immoral then she could have a case for libel, but I doubt if the presenter actually named her and with the sunglasses on she is not completely recognizable.
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