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WANmahani - Google berkata ia telah menghapuskan "puluhan
ribu" gambar bogel selebriti yang telah dicuri dan diterbitkan dalam
talian. Kenyataan itu datang selepas seorang peguam hiburan Hollywood mengancam
untuk menyaman web gergasi untuk "melanggar privasi."
Syarikat berteknologi menegaskan ia bertindak balas
kepada permintaan pelang-garan privasi "dalam masa beberapa jam," dan
disahkan ia telah ditutup "beratus-ratus akaun."
Tindak balas berlaku selepas sekumpulan peguam
mengancam untuk menangani Google "Kegagalan untuk membuang gambar2."
Pasukan yang berpangkalan di LA bertindak bagi pihak selebriti wanita mana imej
telah digodam & disiarkan dlm talian, walaupun nama-nama yang tepat tidak
didedahkan.
Kumpulan itu mengancam untuk menyaman gergasi carian internet untuk $ 100
juta.
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Salinan kenyataan peguam, yang dialamatkan kepada
Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Google, Larry Page dan yang pengasas bersama Sergey
Brin, telah berjalan di pelbagai laman web - termasuk New York Post - dan
bertajuk "Ulang Hak Cipta Dan Privasi Pelanggaran Google Berkenaan Dengan
Skandal Photo Hacked".
Google adalah "membuat berjuta-juta &
keuntungan daripada penindasan wanita" dgn membenarkan gambar2
yang akan dipaparkan pada pelbagai perkhidmatan milik Google, termasuk laman
web perkongsian video YouTube dan blog platform Blogspot, kata kenyataan itu.
We delete 'tens of
thousands' of nude celeb pics,
Google says in response to suit threat . . .
Google says it has deleted “tens of thousands” of
naked pictures of celebrities that had been stolen and published online. The
statement comes after a Hollywood entertainment lawyer threatened to sue the
web giant for “violating privacy.”
The tech company insisted it responds to privacy
breach requests “within hours,” and confirmed it had already closed “hundreds
of accounts.”
The reaction comes after a group of lawyers
threatened to address Google’s “failure to remove the pictures.” The LA-based
team is acting on behalf of female celebrities whose images were hacked and
posted online, though exact names were not disclosed.
The group threatened to sue the internet search
giant for $100 million.
A copy of the lawyers' statement, addressed to
Google CEO Larry Page and its co-founder Sergey Brin, was run on various sites
– including the New York Post – and is titled “Google’s Repeat Copyright And
Privacy Violations in Connection with Hacked Photo Scandal.”
Google is “making millions and profiting from the
victimisation of women” by allowing the pictures to be displayed on a host of
Google-owned services, including video-sharing site YouTube and blogging
platform Blogspot, the statement says.
Pengasas Google Larry Page (dariKanan) dan
Sergey Brin (Google founders Larry Page (R) and Sergey Brin (Michael Nagle/Getty
Images/AFP)
Peguam berkata mereka telah cuba untuk mendapatkan
imej yang diambil ke bawah di bawah Akta Digital Millennium Copyright (DCMA),
dan bahawa mereka telah menghantar "notis kepada pelbagai pengendali laman
web dan pembekal tuan rumah," semua yang jauh lebih kecil daripada Google
dan menambah bahawa "sebahagian besar laman-laman dan tenteranya ISP
dipatuhi kewajipan mereka dalam tempoh satu atau 2 jam."
Peguam juga menyatakan bahawa Google telah "dibenarkan melulu ini
pelanggaran terang-terangan untuk meneruskan."
Pasukan undang-undang berbanding syarikat untuk
"pembekal bertanggungjawab seperti Twitter," yang mereka berkata
segera dikeluarkan imej yang bersalah dan "digantung akaun pengguna yang
bersalah itu."
Surat itu dihantar
selepas gelombang yg ke-3 imej selebriti wanita telah diposkan dalam talian,
termasuk gambar Cara Delevingne. Yang kumpulan yang ke-3 telah diposkan hanya
seminggu selepas gambar kumpulan ke-2 muncul, termasuk imej Rihanna dan Kim
Kardashian.
Bulan lepas, lebih 100 bintang adalah sasaran
penggodam yang mengepos gambar bogel mereka di laman web 4chan, termasuk 2
gambar bintang 'Permainan Kelapa-ran' Jennifer Lawrence.
The lawyers say they have been trying to get the
images taken down under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), and that
they have been sending “notices to various website operators and host
providers,” all of which are much smaller than Google, adding that the “vast
majority of those sites and ISP hosts complied with their obligations within an
hour or two.”
The attorneys also stated that Google has “recklessly allowed these
blatant violations to continue.”
The legal team compared the company to “responsible
providers like Twitter,” which they said immediately removed the offending
images and “suspended the offending user’s accounts.”
The letter was sent after a third wave of images of
female celebrities was posted online, which included a picture of Cara
Delevingne. The third batch was posted just one week after a second group of
pictures appeared, which included images of Rihanna and Kim Kardashian.
Last month, more than 100 stars were the target of
hackers who posted their naked pictures on the website 4Chan, including two
pictures of 'The Hunger Games' star Jennifer Lawrence.
Jennifer Lawrence (Isaac Brekken/Getty Images
for iHeartMedia/AFP)
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Peguam hiburan Hollywood Marty Singer, yang diwakili
John Travolta dan Charlie Sheen, telah menuntut bahawa Google membayar ganti
rugi bagi "mengekalkan kelakuan yang keji ini pemangsa sesat biasa."
Penyanyi tuduh Google "tingkah laku yang tidak
beretika secara terang-terangan," sambil menambah bahawa pelanggan
wanitanya akan mendapatkan ganti rugi.
Peguam ini juga tuduh Google respons terlambat dalam menghapuskan
gambar2, sambil menambah bahawa mereka memanfaatkan skandal tersebut.
"Oleh kerana mangsa adalah selebriti dengan
hak-hak publisiti berharga anda berbuat apa2 - apa2 selain mengumpul
berjuta-juta dolar dalam hasil pengiklanan. . . kerana anda berusaha utk
mengambil kesempatan ke atas skandal ini & bukan-nya membatalkan itu,"
katanya.
Penyanyi kata meminta agar Google memadam imej-imej 4
minggu lalu, tetapi mereka masih pada enjin carian dan tapak kepunyaan Google
lain seperti YouTube dan Blogspot.
Tetapi seorang jurucakap Google 'shot back', berkata syarikat itu
memperkatakan isu-isu privasi 'dalam beberapa jam bukan minggu."
"Kami tlh mengalih keluar puluhan ribu gambar dlm masa beberapa jam
daripada permintaan yg dibuat - dan kami tlh menutup beratus-ratus akaun.
Internet adalah digunakan utk banyak perkara yg baik. tidak salah seorang
dpd mereka mencuri gambar peribadi rakyat , "kata jurucakap
itu.
Google berkata ia biasanya membuang imej apabila menerima notis hak cipta
sah di bawah Akta Hak Cipta Milenium Digital.
Hollywood entertainment lawyer Marty Singer, who has
represented John Travolta and Charlie Sheen, has demanded that Google pay
damages for “perpetuating the despicable conduct of these habitual pervert
predators.”
Singer accused Google of “blatantly unethical behavior,” adding that his
female clients would seek damages.
The attorney also accused Google of a tardy response in removing the
pictures, adding that they capitalized on the scandal.
“Because the victims are celebrities with valuable
publicity rights you do nothing – nothing but collect millions of dollars in
advertising revenue . . . as you seek to capitalize on this scandal rather than
quash it,” he wrote.
Singer said he requested that Google delete the images four weeks ago,
but that they are still on the search engine and other Google-owned sites such
as YouTube and Blogspot.
But a spokesperson for Google shot back, saying the company deals with
privacy issues “in hours not weeks.”
“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,” the spokesperson said.
Google added that it typically removes images when it receives valid
copyright notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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