The video quickly went viral with over a million people seeing footage which featured her saying 'You're filming Bravo.'
Rome
: An Italian woman who committed suicide after battling to have a sex tape removed from the Internet should have been protected by Italy's existing privacy laws, the official who oversees their application said Friday.
As debate continued to rage over the tragic fate of Tiziana Cantone, privacy tsar Antonello Soro said a public prosecutor had erred when he ruled in October 2015 that the 31-year-old woman's case could not be considered as an illegal breach of her privacy.
The prosecutor did not act on Cantone's complaint on the grounds that she had voluntarily shared the video with friends and had not explicitly notified them not to post it online.
Soro told Sky TG24 that this conclusion was -"absolutely against Italy's law which says that the diffusion of sensitive data can only happen with the explicit consent of the interested party-".
Cantone was found hanging at her aunt's home on Tuesday.
Four men are under investigation for suspected defamation contributing to a suicide apparently caused by a smartphone-filmed video of her performing a sex act on her then boyfriend.
According to media reports, Cantone sent the recording to friends including an ex-boyfriend.
It was soon posted online and quickly went viral with over a million people seeing footage which featured her saying -"You're filming Bravo.-"
