21 Apr Please do an internet search and find out the results of the Erin Andrews invasion of privacy case. Write a commentary on your thoughts on the case. Minimum
- Please do an internet search and find out the results of the Erin Andrews invasion of privacy case. Write a commentary on your thoughts on the case. Minimum 250 words.
- Respond to two classmates' postings. Minimum 100 words per posting.
Erin Andrews is a Fox Sports reporter. Her nude video spread on internet in the year of 2008, at that time she is working in ESPN and she was in one city to cover a college football game. For that incident, she filed a case 75 million dollar suit against Michael Barrett who is an insurance salesman, Nashville Marriott owner and her stalker also. He filmed her nude video through his mobile by removing the peepholes in the door and uploaded in the internet. In this case she own 55 million dollars as a penalty from West End Hotel, Windsor Capital and Barrett. 28 million dollars from West End Hotel because the hotel was found to have failed in protecting Andrews privacy when she was a guest at the hotel and remaining 26 dollars from two companies and Barrett sentenced for two and half years in jail for this act (Fay, 2018).
After this situation, now she will not believe any hotel management and she will not allowed anyone to carry her luggage into the room. Taking an image or photo or nude photo, video of a person without their permission is crime. Barrett captured a nude video of Andrews secretly. So he is more responsible person for that act. Hotel management also guilty in this act because they leaked her booking room details and they helped Barrett in this crime. In my opinion, this is horrible situation to Andrews; there should be more laws to punish the criminals to stop this type of crimes (Giddens & Petter, 2020).
References
Fay, M. (2018). The naked truth: Insufficient coverage for revenge porn victims at state law and the proposed federal legislation to adequately redress them. BCL Rev., 59, 1839.
Giddens, L., & Petter, S. (2020, January). “They Deserved It”: Using the Just World Hypothesis to Understand Blaming, Apathy, and Support on Social Media. In Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
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by Swati Sharma
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In 2008, Erin Andrews was working for ESPN when she was videotaped during her stay in the Nashville Marriott hotel at Vanderbilt University. Michael David Barrett secretly videotaped sportscaster Erin undressed footage via her door peephole and posted it online. Before distributing the video online, he tried to sell the footage to the celebrity gossip website TMZ, but they refused Barrett's proposal (Tamburin, 2016). Barrett was convicted for his criminal conduct and was sentenced to more than two years in prison.
One of the key mistakes was that instead of taking Erin’s permission of sharing the information related to her stay in their hotel, the hotel operator confirmed the information with Barrett. Another mistake was considering the stalker's request of booking a room for him next to her room. Initially, Andrews sued the parent company of Marriott hotel in 2010. But the court denied the Andrews lawsuit against the parent company of Marriott hotel. For carelessness and privacy violation, Erin filed a lawsuit against Barrett (stalker), the hotel’s owner, the operator, Marriott International, West End Hotel Partners, and Windsor Capital (Fox, 2016). In 2016, after two weeks of trial, the jury found that Barrett was 51% liable for his criminal act and the hotel owner and the Windsor Capital Group were 49% responsible for Andrews privacy invasion. Although Andrews demanded $75 million but the jury awarded her $55 million.
In my opinion, convicting Barrett and the hotel staff was the appropriate decision taken by the court. However, the incident took place due to the negligence of the hotel employee. This criminal conduct made Andrews suffer from emotional distress after finding out that her bare footage was available online. Since the guests fully rely on the hotel to safeguard their privacy and safety during their stay in the hotel, therefore, it is vital for the hotels to train their employees to be extremely careful and take proper measures to safeguard their guest’s privacy.
References
Fox, J. T. (2016). What the Erin Andrews case means for the hotel industry. Hotel Management (21582122), 231(7), 16.
Tamburin, A. (2016). Erin Andrews awarded $55 million in civil case over nude video.
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