Stars threaten to sue Google over theft of private images

Lawyers acting for Jennifer Lawrence, Rihanna, Cara Delevingne, and other stars whose private images were hacked have threatened to sue Google for $100m (€79m).

Stars  threaten to sue Google over theft of private images

A number of female celebrities — including Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton, Amber Heard, and Selena Gomez — have had their iCloud accounts targeted and had intimate photos shared on websites Reddit and 4Chan, but legal representatives for more than a dozen of the women has slammed the online giant for allegedly failing to remove the images and “making millions from the victimisation of women”.

Lawyer Marty Singer has written a letter to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, as well as Eric Schmidt and Google lawyers, accusing them of “blatantly unethical behaviour”.

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