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  • Nude pics land Yahoo! in trouble

    MUMBAI: Cecilia Barnes spells Rs $ 3 million for search engine giant Yahoo Inc, and how? Oregon-based Barnes has sued the company for that amount for failing to remove nude photos of her from the profile of her former boyfriend.
     

    Barnes, 48, has claimed in the lawsuit that her former boyfriend began posting naked pictures of her in Yahoo! profiles. Also included were her personal mail ids along with phone numbers. The photos were taken and posted on the net without her consent

    “Due to these profiles and online chats, unknown men would arrive without warning at the plaintiff’s work station expecting to engage in sexual relations with her,” the lawsuit claims.
     
     

    According to media reports, Barnes had informed the company of these activities in January asking them to take action against her former boyfriend, though she failed to receive any feedback from the company. More attempts to get these images removed from the Internet failed in the following months leading to this lawsuit.

    The important bit however is the fact that she did receive a verbal communication from Yahoo! director of communications Mary Osako, who promised that the images would be removed from the online profile database. Laws in United States, however, protect the online companies from lawsuits pertaining to information that is published by third parties.

    Early this month, the internet was abuzz with stories concerning the $10 million lawsuit filed on 9 May against Yahoo!, which charges that co-defendant Mark Bates and others were allowed to share child pornography on a site provided by the Yahoo! Groups service. A site called Candyman allegedly was created by Bates using Yahoo! resources to share child porn.

  • Nude antics put Australian reality show in trouble

    Nude antics put Australian reality show in trouble

    MUMBAI: Australia’s third-ranked television broadcaster Ten Network Holdings Ltd. is in the firing line over its reality show Big Brother Uncut.

    Critics argue that, the fifth Australian series of Big Brother is the raunchiest yet seen in Australia, with the uncut version featuring regular nudity, views of the contestants in the shower, and a steamy hot-tub romp by two contestants.

    Big Brother has a group of strangers locked in a house and gradually voted out by the audience. Local versions of the show are produced around the world, from Britain to South Africa.

    The show has now prompted Australian government politicians to demand a review of how much nudity can be shown on free television down under. According to a Reuters report, Government MP Trish Draper raised her concerns at a closed meeting of government MPs and senators after the latest uncut episode of the program, classified for viewers 15 years and older, featured contestants taking nude photographs of each other.

    On the other hand, people who had been part of the contest feel the other way. A Reuters report has quoted one of the ex-contestants Michelle as telling that people should switch off their televisions if they did not like what they were watching.

    “You put 15 sexually active people in the house who obviously enjoy sex and are young, it is going to happen. We are bored and we are going to do things,” said Michelle.

    A Ten spokeswoman has been quoted as saying that, the program complied with the existing industry code of practice. The spokeswoman said she had written to the broadcast regulator to examine if the voluntary classification system was adequate for reality television programs.

    Ten Network Holdings Ltd. has broadcast the Big Brother series as part of its strategy to target and build up a younger audience.