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Exposed “Skank” Blogger Threatens Google With Privacy Suit, Is Happy to Talk About It

Peter Kafka in Media on August 24, 2009 at 7:36 am PT

What do you do if you’re a blogger who thinks your privacy has been unfairly violated? If you’re Rosemary Port, you threaten to file a high-profile lawsuit, then go to newspapers and TV networks to talk about it. That’s the strategy Port is pursuing now that she’s been outed as the “skank blogger”–the person who used Google’s Blogger service to anonymously insult former model Liskula Cohen.

On the Internet, Everybody Knows You’re a Name-Caller: Google Unmasks the “Skank” Blogger

Peter Kafka in Media on August 19, 2009 at 8:21 am PT

Want to call someone a “skank” on the Web while remaining anonymous? Might want to rethink that: Following an order from a New York court, Google has outed a woman who insulted a former model using the company’s Blogger service.