Chelsea Chaney Sues High School After They Use Her Facebook Bikini Photo To Ironically Warn About Dangers Of Social Media [Photo]

Chelsea Chaney was just an innocuous 17-year-old girl when she uploaded a picture of herself wearing a bikini next to a Snoop Dogg post onto Facebook. Now it's why she's suing her old high school for $2 million.

At a district-wide seminar on the dangers of social media, the Technology at Starr's Mill High School in Georgia, showed the bikini photo as part of his presentation. 

The caption on the photo during a seminar attended by hundred's in Chelsea Chaney's hometown, said "Once it's there, it's there to stay." 

Except, the school ironally embarrassed the student while attempting to scare students in the town from posting anything they might regret to Facebook. 

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."  

Perhaps that what the school had in mind when she showed the picture, except one little problem: they never asked Chelsea Chaney for permission to use the photo. 

Chelsea is now a Freshman at the University of Georgia, but she's still pissed at what happened because it appears Starr's Mill High School never even asked her for permission to use the photo.

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. 

Wellborn maintains that a person does not cede rights to others by posting images on Internet sites such as Facebook.

"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.

"I just don't want this to happen to another student," Chelsea Chaney added. 

The school district denied legal liability, but would not comment further on the Chaney family's lawsuit.

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