Trending News|October 08, 2014 02:06 EDT
Jennifer Lawrence Nude Photo Hack Backlash: Google Responds to $100M Lawsuit After Massive Leak
Google was rattled by a letter from lawyer Marty Singer who represents some of the celebrities that were allegedly victims of a nude photo leak that made the headlines recently.
According to the letter, Singer, who previously represented John Travolta was reportedly demanding $100 million for damages incurred via Google's website
Some of the celebrities that may have been involved with the scandal include Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, Vanessa Hudgens, and Kim Kardashian.
Singer filed a lawsuit against Google because they allegedly failed to abide by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove leaks on YouTube and BlogSpot, which started popping up last September.
Furthermore, Singer stated that Google's "don't be evil" motto is "a sham" and even compared the company to the disreputable treatment of women by the National Football League.
Singer called Google's shortcomings as a "despicable, reprehensible conduct" because Google has allegedly turned a blind eye while the photo leak was happening.
"Google, one of the largest ISPs in the world, with vast resources and a huge support staff, generating multimillions of dollars in revenues on a daily basis, has recklessly allowed these blatant violations to continue in conscious disregard of our clients' rights," Singer added.
At first, Apple was blamed for the incident because several photos got hacked from the celebrities' iCloud storage, according to Celebgate.
After a few days, lawyers of Justin Verlander have discovered 461 URLS showing private images of Verlander and girlfriend Kate Upton that allegedly have taken roots via Google.
Meanwhile, the Internet giant stated on Oct. 2 that they immediately took action and removed "tens of thousands of pictures" and "closed hundreds of accounts" linked to the photo leak.
Google is reported to have successfully removed 51 percent of the images circulating the Internet.
Google also countered the lawsuit, questioning to whom the "selfies" really belong to.
The Internet giant also stated that they neglected to remove some of the images because the people involved are wearing clothes anyway, and that they are still following the DMCA directive of removing the "nude" photos.