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Naked celebrity photo leak: what are the victims’ rights?

A list Celebrities Apple Cloud accounts have apparently been hacked and  hundreds of nude images of them have been released over the internet on a live forum called reddit.com  these images consisted of the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Victoria Justice among others and since an FBI investigation has been on going.

- If the leak was Apples fault they could be fined hundreds of thousands of Dollars/Pounds by the ICO

 - The hacker, the cloud provider, the data and the victim may all be in different countries (and subject to different laws)

- The victim must demonstrate that the photograph was confidential in nature. This may be harder than initially thought, especially if the victim has previously appeared nude.

The Leaked nudes are a attack on privacy is a sick and shameful act on part of the hacker and should be taken to court and prosecuted or fined as well as any publisher of the image. Apple should suggest to users to not answer any security questions truthfully as the hacker was able to get through to the account because they know what the celebrities hometown is or what the name of their pet, However, it's Jennifer Lawrence so he also should be congratulated. To some a thief to other a living legend.

http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/media-network-blog/2014/sep/02/celebrity-photo-leak-victims-rights