Streisand felt that this photo violated her privacy
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:35 am
In a brilliant spoof by The Onion Network, the CIA praises the social network Facebook as the reason why the internet was invented: “the reason we invented the internet”. It is not for nothing that I called PRISM the most brilliant Big Data strategy ever of the NSA.
Data is the new oil and privacy is the new currency. The NSA has tapped into a goldmine thanks to all our private data. The NSA didn’t even need to build a backdoor into Twitter, because the front door is wide open. Reason enough to declare 2013 the year of the “selfie”!
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The Streisand Effect
In 2003, singer Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and the uganda mobile phone number list website Pictopia.com for $50 million. The site in question had published a photo of her Malibu home. The photo was part of a collection of 12,000 photos that were supposed to provide insight into beach erosion.
At the time she sued both parties, the photo had only been viewed six times. Two page views were from her own lawyers. The case received a lot of media attention. In one month, the website with the photo was viewed more than 420,000 times. With this lawsuit, La Streisand achieved exactly the opposite effect of what she wanted to achieve.
Data is the new oil and privacy is the new currency. The NSA has tapped into a goldmine thanks to all our private data. The NSA didn’t even need to build a backdoor into Twitter, because the front door is wide open. Reason enough to declare 2013 the year of the “selfie”!
Accept cookies
The Streisand Effect
In 2003, singer Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and the uganda mobile phone number list website Pictopia.com for $50 million. The site in question had published a photo of her Malibu home. The photo was part of a collection of 12,000 photos that were supposed to provide insight into beach erosion.
At the time she sued both parties, the photo had only been viewed six times. Two page views were from her own lawyers. The case received a lot of media attention. In one month, the website with the photo was viewed more than 420,000 times. With this lawsuit, La Streisand achieved exactly the opposite effect of what she wanted to achieve.