Cecilia Barnes, 48, fielded the lawsuit in Oregon and has claimed that her former boyfriend began posting naked pictures of her in Yahoo! profiles. Also included were her personal mail ids along with phone numbers. The photos were taken and posted on the net without her consent.

    "Due to these profiles and online chats, unknown men would arrive without warning at plaintiff's work expecting to engage in sexual relations with her," the lawsuit claims.

    Barnes had informed the company of these activities in January asking them to take action against her former boyfriend, though she failed to receive any feedback from the company. More attempts to get these images removed from the Internet failed in the following months leading to this lawsuit.

    The important bit however is the fact that she did received a verbal communication from Mary Osako, Yahoo!¡¯s director of communications who promised that the images will be removed from the online profile database. Laws in United States however protect the online companies from lawsuits pertaining to information that is published by third parties.

    A Yahoo! spokeswoman declined to comment, saying the company did not comment on pending litigation.

    (Agencies)