A plastic surgeon did breast augmentation on seven patients and came out looking like the biggest boob of all.
Six patients in St. Louis are suing plastic surgeon Dr. Michele Koo since discovering that nude photos of their torsos, before and after breast augmentation surgery, appeared online with their names attached—not directly, but if you hovered your cursor over the photo, the names appeared, reports ABC News. The patients signed an agreement for the photos to be used but they were supposed to be unidentifiable. The first plaintiff discovered the problem when she was on a business trip and an IT person started acting strangely towards her; a colleague suggested she search for herself on Google images. That's how she found out.
Dr. Koo issued a statement apologizing for the error which said, in part, “I sincerely regret that the protective mechanisms supposedly set up by the web host failed and allowed this problem to occur.” She also said she “immediately investigated” as soon as she heard of the situation and moved to have the photos taken down, but Neil Bruntrager, attorney for all of the plaintiffs, said he sent a letter to the doctor six weeks earlier; that it took a week to get an image to come off the website; and that even then, it was only the image of the first plaintiff.
So if anyone has ever taken any pictures of you … rest assured, they'll turn up on the Internet one day.
Six patients in St. Louis are suing plastic surgeon Dr. Michele Koo since discovering that nude photos of their torsos, before and after breast augmentation surgery, appeared online with their names attached—not directly, but if you hovered your cursor over the photo, the names appeared, reports ABC News. The patients signed an agreement for the photos to be used but they were supposed to be unidentifiable. The first plaintiff discovered the problem when she was on a business trip and an IT person started acting strangely towards her; a colleague suggested she search for herself on Google images. That's how she found out.
Dr. Koo issued a statement apologizing for the error which said, in part, “I sincerely regret that the protective mechanisms supposedly set up by the web host failed and allowed this problem to occur.” She also said she “immediately investigated” as soon as she heard of the situation and moved to have the photos taken down, but Neil Bruntrager, attorney for all of the plaintiffs, said he sent a letter to the doctor six weeks earlier; that it took a week to get an image to come off the website; and that even then, it was only the image of the first plaintiff.
So if anyone has ever taken any pictures of you … rest assured, they'll turn up on the Internet one day.