A college student is asking a Manhattan court to take an unprecedented measure: Order Google, Yahoo and Bing to permanently delete her full name from their internet search engines over revenge porn posted by an ex-boyfriend.
The Harlem woman — whose unique West African name is four words long — broke up with her boyfriend in November 2015 following a three-month relationship, the suit says.
Angry that he’d been dumped, he published surreptitiously recorded sex tapes on X-rated websites, according to court papers.
The 30-year-old woman was horrified and asked the sites to remove the videos. They complied, but her online nightmare had already gone viral.
More than four pages of X-rated references to the woman still come up whenever her name is entered in search engines.
“If you Google her name, everything is right there,” her attorney, Ryanne Konan, told The Post.
“She can’t even get an internship.”
The women is seeking an injunction from the court that would force the search engines to “remove her full name from their search engines,” according to court papers.
Experts say the demand is a first-of-its-kind case.
“Removing someone’s name entirely from a search engine? I’ve never heard of that being done before,” said Darius Maxwell Fisher, head of the reputation management firm Status Labs.
But the digital landscape is slightly more amenable to reputation cleanups across the Atlantic.
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