French Olympic Gold Medalist Laure Manaudou is Naked and Sucking, Leaked Nude Photo Sex Scandal (sports)

Thursday, August 14, 2008
French Olympic Gold Medalist Laure Manaudou is Naked and Sucking, Leaked Nude Photo Sex Scandal


Laure Manaudou took the pictures of herself without clothes on for her boyfriend, and Italian swimmer, Luca Marin. Laure and Marin had an ugly public break-up at a recent swim meet in Hungary. The pictures of Laure without clothes appeared just hours after the two split. There is also rumored to be a video, and currently it appears there is no real video only the rumor. Marin said when asked about the photos:

"I know nothing about the video and have only seen the photos. Yes, it looks like it’s really her but it is ridiculous to think that it was me who put them there. They (the allegations) are inventions. I only said that she had done a very rude thing (by throwing the ring away) and that I was happy she was no longer my girlfriend."

Laure was so mad she threw the ring away Marin gave her. Harsh. Lauren said in response to questions about the pictures:

"I’ve decided not to talk about my personal life anymore. I would prefer to keep silent about it at this point."

Lawyers in YouTube lawsuit reach user privacy deal (world)

July 15, 2008

Lawyers in YouTube lawsuit reach user privacy deal

Google said it had agreed to release a version of a massive viewership database that blanks out YouTube username and Internet address data that could be used to identify individual video watchers. -- PHOTO: THE NEW PAPER

SAN FRANCISCO - DEFENDANTS and plaintiffs in two related copyright infringement lawsuits against YouTube have reached a deal to protect the privacy of millions of YouTube watchers during evidence discovery, a spokesman for Google Inc said on Monday.

Earlier in July, a New York federal judge ordered Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc and other plaintiffs to help them to prepare a confidential study of what they argue are vast piracy violations on the video-sharing site.

Google said it had agreed to provide plaintiffs' attorneys for Viacom and a class action group led by the Football Association of England a version of a massive viewership database that blanks out YouTube username and Internet address data that could be used to identify individual video watchers.

'We have reached agreement with Viacom and the class action group,' Google spokesman Ricardo Reyes said. 'They have agreed to let us anonymise YouTube user data,' he said.
Viacom, owner of movie studio Paramount and MTV Networks, requested the information as part of its US$1 billion (S$1.35 billion) copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular online video service YouTube and its deep-pocketed parent, Google.

Judge Louis Stanton of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google on July 1 to turn over as evidence a database with usernames of YouTube viewers, what videos they watched when, and users' computer addresses.

Privacy activists from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other groups argued in response that the order 'threatens to expose deeply private information' and violated the Video Privacy Protection Act, a 1988 law passed after Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's video rental habits were revealed.

Viacom said at the time that it needed the data to demonstrate video piracy patterns that are the heart of its case against YouTube. But it sought to diffuse privacy fears, saying it had no interest in identifying individual users.

One outstanding disagreement between the two parties is on how to handle YouTube viewership data of YouTube and Google employees, which Judge Stanton also had ordered YouTube to turn over as part of the July 1 ruling covering YouTube consumers.

In a legal stipulation agreed to by attorneys for all major parties in the case, the sides agreed that the new data privacy agreement did not cover these employees and that they would work out to hand over this data separately in coming weeks.

YouTube faces two separate, but parallel lawsuits, that for purposes of preliminary motions and evidence discovery are acting as if the two cases were consolidated. Viacom filed the first lawsuit, and a separate class action was later filed by the English Premier League soccer, several other European sports leagues, along with music publishers and videographers.

The cases are unlikely to come to trial before 2009 or 2010. -- REUTERS

http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Tech%2B%2526%2BScience/STIStory_257907.html

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From this article we can see that no matter how we might feel that our privacy is safe and kept, it may not be so.

As you can see from the article even we feel that we are just watching videos posted on Youtube privacy, it is not so.

There are still means and ways to find who actually posted and watched those videos.

Hence privacy is less likely to be applied in today, the modern society.

There are too many sources to review one’s privacy due to globalisation and advancing technology.

Top Malaysian minister admits affair caught in sex-tape scandal (politics)

Top Malaysian minister admits affair caught in sex-tape scandal


Kuala Lumpur - A top Malaysian cabinet minister and leader of the country's second-largest political party on Tuesday admitted to being caught on tape having sex with his mistress. Health Minister Chua Soi Lek, who is vice-president of the ruling Malaysian Chinese Association party, admitted that he was the man on videotapes that began circulating over the weekend, the official Bernama news agency said.
But Chua said he would not relinquish his government and party positions, adding that he had spoken with and apologized to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi over the matter.
"I serve at the pleasure of the prime minister," he said. "I will not allow (other) people to jeopardize or obstruct my duties."
Chua said the woman in the tape was a "personal friend," and he appealed to the press to allow some space for his family.
Police have launched an investigation to find the people responsible for making and circulating the recordings, which appeared to filmed by cameras placed in a hotel room in the southern state of Johor.
"I leave it to the police to investigate. I'm considering the possibility of making a police report but the police have started their own investigation," Chua said.
Chua's admission to his extra-marital affair is seen as an embarrassment for ruling government's family-oriented and religion-driven image in the conservative, predominantly Muslim nation.

Help! How do you deal with pesky neighbour? (forum)

Help! How do you deal with pesky neighbour?

Neighbours are complaining on how the neighbours kids would invade their privacy, by coming over to the front of the porch and create a lot of noise and damage some of the property nearby. Even though the kids were sometimes invited in, they go to the extent of not knowing the boundary in the house, and thus invading some of the owner’s privacy. To counter this, the members of the forum contributed some possible ideas to deal with the problem. Some ideas seems to solve the problem without getting the parents of the kids involved in this matter, while some decided to take a direct approach instead.
From this forum discussion, we can conclude that some people believe that their young ones should be taught not to invade other people’s privacy as consequences of it is that, they would treat what that is supposed to be a privacy and turn it into something that is not. And as for the responses, some people decided to take the passive approach of ignoring them and disallowing them in the house, while others take a more aggressive approach of blaming the parents for what the children do.


http://boards.msn.com/Musicboards/thread.aspx?threadid=430189&boardsparam=Page=8

Privacy- What's the cost? (entertainment)

Article: Privacy- What's the cost?
Our society has become so fixated in watching and reading about others, that sometimes we forget that celebrities should have some privacy of their own. Stories in the headlines can range from what a certain celebrity orders from a fast food restaurant to information concerning a divorce settlement between a couple. Every solitary move a famous individual makes in his or her life is documented in a photograph, editorial, or headline on a TV show dedicated to exposing their life. If famous celebrities cannot receive any amount of privacy, why should individuals like ourselves be guaranteed that our personal lives are not exposed to the world? Should not all human beings be able to keep certain aspects of their life personal? Journalists and photographers should realize that celebrities are human beings that would like to keep certain parts of their lives to themselves, and not have their lives consumed with photographs and editorials devoted to exposing all details of their life, good or bad.Although numerous individuals think that being famous means being in the public eye on a daily basis, people do not understand how far some photographers and journalists will go to get a juicy story. Being famous does come with life altering changes that celebrities have to learn to accept no matter how drastic. Celebrities start to become familiar with people watching their every move from the minute they wake up to the time they will go back to bed. Journalists and photographers will literally stalk famous individuals down to simply get a juicy story or photograph that they can write about in the next editorial. Photographers seem to be the worst people when it comes to stalking celebrities with their cameras.


Simply going out to run errands can turn into the biggest nightmare for celebrities. As a result of being bombarded with cameras, the actor was forced to hide his face with his jacket and hands blocking the photographers from taking pictures of him. How would anyone feel if when going to work they were surrounded with cameras and light-bulb flashes constantly?
The media is certainly abusing the rights they are given by exposing details of famous individual’s lives. Anything from celebrity scandals and breakups to private matters like divorce are always shown on TV shows featured on E News, which show the latest and most up to date stories. These shows will provide viewers with hard evidence including paper documents and photographs that depict a certain story. Stories dealing with breakups, for instance, the popular divorce between Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston after seven years of marriage, are sold to specific magazines for a large amount of moneyTabloids are probably most famous for exposing the dirty secrets and scandals of celebrities, true or not.
Why should celebrities' be the target of tabloids? Why not expose regular individual's secrets to the world instead?




Many photographers will often stalk celebrities down on a daily basis by hiding out somewhere nearby and keeping a very close watch to their every move. In some extreme cases, some photographers will be so aggressive with celebrities that it often results in verbal abuse, car accidents, and ultimately death.





Resource:
http://sarakshaikh.blogspot.com/
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Entertainment/story?id=528898
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4697388

Kiss of the past and now (local)

Charlyn sent in this beautiful photo today (Mar 7) of her and her husband sharing a magical kiss.


"The sweet, gentle and magical kiss that swept me off my feet," she called it.


STOMP has contacted Charlyn to find out more about this beautiful couple's love story.


In the past, people seldom dare to kiss in the public or even hold hand because people might think that it is too 'open'. So people in the past are much more conservative and their privacy level is higher due to the influence of culture.


However now in this modern society, kiss on street, or showing a picture of a guy and a girl kissing is quite common already. Technology plays apart for us to express ourselves. Now coming to the privacy level, it shows us that in this modern society, the privacy of people are much lower. This is because people are much more influence by the western.

STOMPer Paula sent in these pictures of some romantic moments that she has had with her boyfriend Matin.

In her email to STOMP, she wrote: “He is my other half, which makes me my whole.

And he is the reason I live.

“He never fails to catch me whenever I fall and that is the reason why I love him.

“Till death do us part. Paula and Matin forever and always.”

Now this is another picture of couple kissing. It can come to this extent. Some people might feel that is too 'over'. Some may think that this is alright. Indeed the privacy level changes over time, as people nowadays think different; as long as they feel comfortable it is alright for them.