Judge Lifts Ban on Video Of Brazilian Model
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SAO PAULO, Brazil — A judge reversed course yesterday and lifted an order that led to a ban of YouTube in Brazil because a sexy video of supermodel Daniela Cicarelli had circulated widely on the video-sharing site.
The move came after telecommunications companies and Internet providers blocked YouTube from the Amazon to Brazil’s populous South in recent days, saying they were unable to limit blocking to the video of Ms. Cicarelli making out with her boyfriend.
The case, the first of its kind in Brazil, spotlights the extremely gray and technologically challenging area of when and how Internet companies and providers should remove content when privacy rights are violated.
With video skyrocketing in popularity online, “there are going to be instances when people’s genuine privacy interests or privacy rights are put at risk,” a law professor at Canada’s University of Ottawa, Michael Geist, said. “We are only at the very early days of trying to reconcile that balance.”
The video shows Ms. Cicarelli and Brazilian banker Renato Malzoni in intimate scenes along a beach near the city of Cadiz, Spain. The order for its removal was issued after they sued and won a ruling that YouTube violated the couple’s right to privacy in hosting the video submitted by the site’s users.
