Nude voyeur video
On July 16, 2009 a video posted on the site "NSFW POA" hinted that a naked blonde woman videotaped through a hotel peephole was a popular sports personality.[6] The next day, Andrews authorized her attorney to issue a statement via PRNewswire verifying that the woman in the video was her and that the video was made without her knowledge or consent.[7] It was determined that the video was originally uploaded to French video site Dailymotion on February 17, 2009, and had been available via Google Search for months.[8] The press release spurred large interest in the video online and set off a surge in queries on search engines looking for the video. Four of the top seven search queries on Google Search on July 18 were related to the video.[9]
On July 20, 2009 TMZ reported that the voyeur video of Andrews was being shopped around.[10] Don Chavez's research continued with the possibility of additional videos, additional victims, and a response from the uploader before his Dailymotion account was deleted/removed.[11].
Legal council for Andrews and ESPN acted quickly to both remove the video from sites that had posted it and and work with authorities in an attempt to locate and prosecute the perpetrators of the privacy invasion.[12] The event has sparked conversation about double standards for female sports reporters, the effects of privacy invasion, and their impacts on the future of female sports reporting.[13]
