They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but an Argentine court recently ruled that a picture can also be worth thousands of dollars in damages. Virginia Da Cunha sued Yahoo! and Google for damages after photos of her that were posted on sex-trade websites, without her consent, appeared in the results of Internet searches for her name. A civil court in Buenos Aires ruled for Da Cunha and awarded her $26,248 in damages, finding that the search engines actively amplified the harm of the defamatory third-party postings by making the sex-trade websites more accessible than they would otherwise be. The court also held that neither company was doing enough to guard against such harm to individuals.
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