The 'Skanks in NYC' Soap Opera: Will Google Be Sued?

24.08.2009

Whew...still with me? Good. Here's what's happening now.

Meet the Blogger

Over the weekend, the "Skanks in NYC" blogger stepped out of the shadows and spoke to the . The woman -- identified as Rosemary Port, a 29-year-old student at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (and, by some accounts, ) -- tells the Daily News Cohen "defamed herself" by making such a big deal out of the small-scale blog.

"Before her suit, there were probably two hits on my Web site: one from me looking at it, and one from her looking at it," Port tells the Daily News. "That was before it became a spectacle. I feel my right to privacy has been violated."

Hang on, though: We're not even at the juiciest part yet. Port now says she's going to file a lawsuit of her own -- against Google. Her attorney tells the Daily News she'll accuse Google of "breach[ing] its fiduciary duty to protect her expectation of anonymity" (or, in regular English, not protecting Port's right to speak freely and anonymously). Port's demand: $15 million in damages.