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Student Sues for $2 million after School Uses Her Bikini-Clad Facebook Photo Without Permission

The New York Daily News reports:

A high school administrator in Fayette County, Ga., grabbed a revealing photo from a student’s Facebook page and showed it to hundreds of students and teachers at a districtwide seminar.

The student in the photo, 17-year-old Chelsea Chaney, is now suing her district for $2 million, saying the picture was used without her permission.

In the photo, taken during a family trip, Chaney wears a red bikini and poses next to a cardboard cutout of rapper Snoop Dogg. The young woman, now a college freshman at the University of Georgia, says she posted the photo to the social media site thinking that only her friends and friends of friends could view it.

She was shocked to learn that hundreds of complete strangers had seen the photo during the seminar. The Fayette County Schools Director of Technology allegedly used it to demonstrate the lasting effects of posting photos on social media sites.

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