Chelsea Chaney Facebook Bikini Photo Lawsuit; Teacher Actually Used Her Photo To Demonstrate "Evils" Of Social Media[BIKINI PIC AND VIDEO]
Chelsea Chaney has filed a $2 million lawsuit over a bikini photo on her facebook page. Chaney posted a photo of herself, wearing a bikini, on her Facebook page and was shocked to discover that an school instructor used the photo in a presentation.
Chelsea Chaney's lawsuit is with the Fayetteville County School district in Georgia, where the teacher ripped her bikini photo off Facebook and made it the main part of his presentation.
The presentation was about social media and Chelsea's Facebook bikini photo was used an example of what not to post on Facebook saying,
"Once it's there, it's there to stay."
The teacher's scare backfired when he embarrassed Chelsea while attempting to instill fear into students in the town from posting anything they might regret to Facebook and now Chaney has filed a hefty lawsuit towards the school.
Chelsea Chaney told ABC affiliate WSB-TV that she was "horrified" and "embarrased."
Chaney continued, "It never crossed my mind that it would ever - that this would ever happen to me."
The administrator who--is still anonymous, unlike Chelsea Chaney--selected the photo has attempted to apologize, saying in writing that the picture was "randomly choosen," but that's not going to cut it.
Chelsea Chaney is still pissed and she's skeptical of the claim by the adminstrator since the photo selected wasn't a profile picture.
"I just don't think it was random," she said. "It wasn't my main picture. You had to go looking through it."
The attorney representing Chelsea and her family, Pete Wellborn, told the ABC affiliate that he has filed a lawsuit on her behalf for $2 million.
They contend that the school distrcit violated federal law, state law and Chaney's basic constitutional rights to privacy.
"Their idea that putting something on Facebook gives them a license to steal it and carte blanche to do with it what they did is wrong ethically, it's wrong morally and it's absolutely wrong legally," the attorney argued.