August 25th, 2009 
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Rosemary Port is Skanks of NYC Blogger; Liskula Cohen is the model against whom she made comments, and was outed by Google in a lawsuit filed by the model. See photos video and find out more as she is now suing Google for $15 million.Rosemary Port (picture above) is a 29-year-old Fashion Institute of Technology student who plans to file a $15 million federal lawsuit against Google for revealing her identity in the aftermath of a lawsuit filed by 36-year-old Canadian fashion model Liskula Cohen.
Rosemary Port, Skanks of NYC blogger had written about the model, as an anonymous blogger, accusing her of being “psychotic, lying, whoring … skank”.
The model won a landmark case against Google in New York Supreme Court which resulted in Google revealing the blogger’s identity. In so doing, Judge Joan Madden rejected the claim of Rosemary Port, Skanks of NYC Blogger that blogs are a “modern-day forum for conveying personal opinions, including invective and ranting” and thereby should not be regarded as factual assertions.
In the aftermath of the court ruling, Google turned over the e-mail address and IP addresses from each time the blogger had logged on to the blog, thus allowing Liskula Cohen to find out the blogger’s true identity. The blog which was on Blogger.com — owned by Google — has since been deleted.
The Times Online quotes Google spokesman, Andrew Pederson who said the company does “sympathize with anyone who may be the victim of cyber bullying.” He further said:We also take great care to respect privacy concerns and will only provide information about a user in response to a subpoena or other court order. If content is found by a court to be defamatory, we will, of course, remove it immediately.”
In an interview with the New York Daily News, her attorney Salvatore Strazzullo states that Rosemary Port in the lawsuit will charge that Google “breached its fiduciary duty to protect her expectation of anonymity.” He went on to say. “I’m ready to take this all the way to the Supreme Court,” Strazzullo said. “Our Founding Fathers wrote ‘The Federalist Papers’ under pseudonyms. Inherent in the First Amendment is the right to speak anonymously. Shouldn’t that right extend to the new public square of the Internet?”
Rosemary Port told the newspaper:When I was being defended by attorneys for Google, I thought my right to privacy was being protected…But that right fell through the cracks. Without any warning, I was put on a silver platter for the press to attack me. I would think that a multi-billion dollar conglomerate would protect the rights of all its users.”Here are Rosemary Port photos and Liskula Cohen pictures are here.
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