A business consultant wants a judge to compel YouTube and Google owns a cyber-cipher Who has posted what it says are illegal and online videos of her comments hurt her reputation to expose.Carla Franklin, a former model and actress turned MBA, said in a legal petition filed Monday that she believes that a user searches Google or its users complained of sexual mores in the comments made under pseudonyms on a Columbia Business School website. Franklin says unauthorized person also YouTube clips of her out in a small-budget independent film on top.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google Inc. said in a statement that it does not discuss individual cases to protect the privacy of users, but it follows all applicable laws.
The news caused Franklin “personal humiliation” and hurt her professional perspective as she was searching for a job after graduating from Ivy League business school in 2009, its legal papers say.
The video clips are harmless, but unauthorized, and she found it weird that someone had dug up the film and posted documents, apparently in an attempt to an uncomfortable, her lawyer, David M. Fish to make, said Tuesday. A video allegedly refers to Franklin as a “whore.”
Anonymity is a cherished and defended stubbornly refuge for many Internet users. But a growing number of people and companies have tried to blogs, websites and other online services working to make public trashing them, and some have succeeded.
In a case that grabbed headlines, Vogue cover model Liskula Cohen successfully sued Google in a state court in Manhattan last year the name of a blogger who had published remarks about hygiene and sexual habits to get Cohen.
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