![]() ![]() Since being fired, Cutler moved back to New York, wrote a novel based on the scandal, posed nude for Playboy and started a new Web site, where she solicits donations “for slutty clothes and drugs. ![]() Rotenberg asked, what if Cutler had secretly videotaped the encounters and sold the videos without Steinbuch’s consent? There has to be a line somewhere, he said. It’s online where a million people can find it.” “It’s not sitting in a nice, leather-bound book under a pillow. It’s a different question when you reveal someone else’s private life,” he said, adding that simply calling something a diary doesn’t make it one. “Anybody who wants to reveal their own private life has a right to do that. Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said he may teach the Washingtonienne case this spring during his class at Georgetown Law School. In May 2004, she was fired when the contents of her diary appeared in Wonkette: The DC Gossip, a popular blog in the Washington D.C. Senator Michael DeWine (R-Ohio), authored an online diary (on ) under the pseudonym The Washingtonienne. If the case goes to trial, its outcome will be important both to bloggers and to people who chronicle their lives on social-networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The Washingtonienne Blogger Jessica Cutler, a former staff assistant to U.S. ![]()
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