Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Apple Isn't Responsible for Your Nude Selfies

Owners of cloud services specifically refuse to take responsibility for data theft. So if you're a celebrity whose nude pictures are splashed all over by hackers, all you can do is smile and wave.

September 2, 2014 at 10:20 AM UTC

By Leonid Bershidsky

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

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What do you do if you're a celebrity and nude pictures you happened to store in the cloud are suddenly all over the Internet? We've seen the full spectrum of possible reactions, only one of which makes sense.

There's denial, as in former Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice's tweet: "Those so-called nudes of me are FAKE people." It's irrelevant: Morons on this Reddit thread will still salivate over the pictures. For their purposes, there's no such thing as fake porn.