Outted Blogger Plans to Sue Google for Revealing Her Identity

After a New York Supreme Court judge ruled that Google reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger who created the "Skanks in NYC" blog on its Blogger.com platform, the woman whose identity was revealed - Rosemary Port - plans to sue the Internet giant. Speaking for the first time since the ruling, Port also says that model Liskula Cohen should blame herself for the uproar.
Port said,
"This has become a public spectacle and a circus that is not my doing. By going to the press, she defamed herself. Before her suit, there were probably two hits on my web site: one from me looking at it, and on from her looking at it. That was before it became a spectacle. I feel my right to privacy has been violated.
Port, 29, added that she is furious with Google for revealing her identity. She is so upset that she is planning to file a $15 million federal lawsuit against them.
The Fashion Institute of Technology student added:
"When I was being defended by attorneys for Google, I thought my right to privacy was being protected. But that right fell through the cracks. Without any warning, I was put on a silver platter for the press to attack me. I would think that a multi-billion dollar conglomerate would protect the rights of all its users."
Port's attorney, Salvatore Strazzullo, says that she will charge that Google "breached its fiduciary duty to protect her expectation of anonymity."
Strazullo continued:
"I'm ready to take this all the way to the Supreme Court. Our Founding Fathers wrote 'The Federalist Papers' under pseudonyms. Inherent in the First Amendment is the right to speak anonymously. Shouldn't that right extend to the new public square of the Internet?"
Port said:
"I feel proud to live in a country where you're not persecuted for your opinions. That right has to be protected.
Even though people are now taking shots at me on the Web, I believe those people have a right to their opinions - and their anonymity."
Port will appear on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday.
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