Family Sues Virgin Mobile for “Grief and Humiliation” Over Photo

A Texas family has filed suit over Australia’s Virgin Mobile’s use of their daughter’s photo in the company’s current ad campaign. The company picked out the girl’s photo from Flickr, the Yahoo-owned website, and incorporated it and current Virgin Mobile slogans in the ads. The slogans in question are “Dump Your Pen Friend” and “Free text virgin to virgin”. The family claims that the company has now “damaged Alison’s reputation and exposed her to ridicule from her peers and scrutiny from people who can now Google her”. Read more here in an AP story. Here’s more from the Melbourne Sun.