High Noon: Outted Blogger Sues

The blogger who anonymously tarred a fashion model as a “skank” before being outed by Google Inc. under court order generated considerable public outrage when she announced plans to sue the company for $15 million, but few lawyers other than her own believe she has a case. Rosemary Port (pictured), a 29-year-old Fashion Institute of Technology student, used a free Blogger account provided by the Mountain View, Calif., company to label Vogue cover model Liskula Cohen an “old hag,” “ho” and other less than flattering things. Cohen successfully sued to have the blogger’s identity revealed by Google, arguing the comments were defamatory. As Port’s name quickly spread throughout the tabloids, she decided to fire back. Her attorney, Salvatore Strazzullo, told the New York Daily News Port plans to charge that Google “breached its fiduciary duty to protect her expectation of anonymity”/ John Temple , San Francisco Chronicle. More here .

Question: What expectation of privacy protection should a blogger/commenter expect from a host media, like Google or even The Spokesman-Review?