Tiziana Cantone
Tiziana Cantone (July 1, 1983, Naples, Italy – September 13, 2016) was an Italian woman who committed suicide after private videos of her having sex were publicly disseminated on the internet.
She had knowingly taken the videos of her engaging in consensual sex acts and then sent the videos to several people, including her ex-boyfriend, via the WhatsApp message service. Her ex-boyfriend subsequently uploaded the video to public internet sites in early 2015. One such video went viral due to her reacting when filmed performing fellatio in front of a car with the words: "You're filming? Good!". (Italian: Stai facendo il video? Bravo!) The phrase appeared on T-shirts, smartphone cases and other paraphernalia.[1]
She fought a legal case over the right to be forgotten, which led to the sex videos being removed from numerous EU websites. However, she was also ordered to pay 20,000 euros in legal costs. She legally changed her name and moved to a new city in attempts to avoid the publicity generated by the sex videos.[1] She committed suicide in September 2016.[2][3][4][5]
Her mother Maria Teresa Giglio still fights to remove the video from the Internet.[6]
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- ^ a b "Tiziana Cantone's family calls for justice after suicide over sex tape - CNN.com". cnn.com. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
- ^ "Leaked sex tapes aren't a joke - they're deadly". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
- ^ "Tiziana Cantone: Woman's suicide after sex tape went viral prompts calls for stronger online privacy laws | The Independent". independent.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
- ^ "Tiziana Cantone Sex Tape Leak: Italian Woman Dies By Suicide After Revenge Video Goes Viral | Huffington Post". huffingtonpost.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
- ^ "Tiziana Cantone: Suicide following years of humiliation online stuns Italy - BBC News". bbc.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
- ^ A Mother Wants the Internet to Forget Italy's Most Viral Sex Tape, Rossalyn Warren, May 16, 2018, The Atlantic.
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