Privacy vs. celebrity

On Sunday, a hacker apparently worked his way through the cloud and into the phones of several high-profile female celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, posting nude photos of them on 4Chan, a dingy site that nearly no one had heard of before.

As the Daily Beast summed it up, “Some of the stars are asserting that the photos of them are fake but others, like Lawrence and Winstead, appear to be deeply troubled by the leak. … Winstead took to Twitter to express her feelings of violation. And a representative for Jennifer Lawrence dubbed the leak ‘a flagrant violation of privacy,’ promising that the authorities ‘will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos.’”