Doing something private in the privacy of your own home with your partner that bothers nobody isnt stupid.
Once you digitise something, anything, and uploaded it to the internet, you loose all control over said thing.
This is a horribly bad interpretation of of rights. I understand you are from the UK where the leash is much tighter--but no matter the content, whether it be school documents or pictures. These should always be safe and protected by these services that we use.
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I'm not disagreeing at all, they should, but we all know they aren't. I mean **** the FBI gets there **** hacked into... and when your a public figure your much more of a target. I'm not saying its right, but its just how it is.
---I guess I should clarify what I mean by 'control' I mean that, once you upload something to the internet it is very VERY hard to remove it. I mean actually control and manage that data, you can't manage all the information on some cloud server and how that is managed etc which a physical item like a Polaroid, you can control it absolutely---
Exactly. As users, we place trust in the services that are fast becoming integral parts of human's daily lives. A LOT of people have iPhones and store information in the cloud.
Now let's swap "stolen pictures" with "credit card info". If it so happened that an attacker was able to secure some payment information from apple's iCloud --- not only would apple being paying THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS in fines, just imagine how many people would potentially stop using apple services.
Theft is theft, no matter if the item is a digital picture or credit card info. Both items are personal and supposedly locked down under a decent security policy. Companies generally don't care if personal information is stolen as long as the company does not suffer any repercussions from the loss.
Until more strict rules are placed on the storage of "personal and private" data AND fines imposed for giants like Apple who fail to implement proper protocol in securing the user's data, you can bet on more of this stuff happening in the future
I'm not disagreeing with you at all. I totally agree and when credit card information is stolen its a huge deal and **** goes down (as it is now). But that's just money, not really your privacy and you don't really have an option to not upload your credit card details to the internet or through some sort of internet connection becasue of the world we live in.
But with private images you take you have an option. And in the age of revenge porn, even if your not famous you still need to very super hyper careful what you do with images like that and 'control' is key to that, which is why I think sexting is dumb and stupid and shouldn't be encouraged BECAUSE of the dangers of people you don't want, seeing those images, due to, the lack of control you have over said images.
There is risk involved in sending a picture of that tone, sure, but that doesn't negate the fact that the data was supposedly secure in the first place. It is not illegal NOR wrong to posses these types of pictures.
Pictures should be secure as anything-- just as your address (Physical), geo-location data from pictures, e-mail addresses and anything else personally identifiable that is stored in the cloud.
How many users opt to enter their credit card data every time an app purchase is to be made? I'm guessing a minority--we trust the app store(and android market, etc) in keeping our info safe. This trust is then extended to other areas such as keeping address info, tax information, e-mail address information, PICTURES...
So it is OK for an attacker to steal my address info, pictures etc just because I had the audacity to store them online with everything else in my phone??
The flip side of this predicament is the unreasonably high pedestal that nudity is place upon..
Shame of one's own nakedness is a victorian invention..
From this fabricated shame, we've also created faux modesty.. and from there, began the forbidden allure that is today's prevailing view of nudity..
So... this technological fall out is again, a re-balancing of our value system with respect to acceptable human image and behavior..
This has nothing to do with modesty. I had someone from World of Warcraft hack me through Skype and steal photos of me and post them on Imgur and link them all over Twitch. It was the violation of my privacy. I took those pictures for ONE person to see and instead hundreds of thousands of people saw them.
I am not ashamed of my body in the least. I don't care about being "slut" shamed over taking nude photographs for my boyfriend.
I care about 1) my family seeing me naked in a sexual way, 2) my privacy being invaded and then subsequently shared with the world.
I would feel the same way about a stranger peeping through my window. VIOLATED.
Were you able to get the pictures taken down? You knew the guy who did it? Did you press charges?
Sorry if this is nosy I'm just curious.
Yes, eventually, but the guy who hacked me had also written a program that automatically reuploaded the photos when the service returned a 404 response to the images. Fortunately for me, he had directly linked the album to someone in my WoW guild, who was underage, and I used that as leverage with the police to take me seriously and help. The guy ended up disappearing, but he did shut down the program and imgur removed all of the photos he had uploaded (there were only a few photos, but he had uploaded them hundreds of times). That was about two years ago, and for a while there was residual damage, people posting links having reuploaded them themselves and I would have to contact Imgur to get them removed, but it died out after a few months. No one even brings it up on Twitch anymore, I'm pretty sure it's long forgotten now.
I'm sorry, that sucks. What was the guys motivation?
Attention. Some of my friends are huge streamers on Twitch and several of their female friends were targeted. I was just one of a few. He wanted to be known as the guy with the access to all the "Twitch BB" nudes.
So you leverage your boobage and troll the internet via Twitch.tv..
THis goes back.. how is it NOT somewhat your fault for seducing young hackers to steal your pictures...
The big bad wolf, vs little red riding hood... RED CAPE + Woods = Wolf bite.
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There is no way you're an adult. Until I see you at a KeyCon, I call bull**** on you being above the age of 18.
I'm not apologizing for having boobs. I didn't ask anyone to notice them. I've posted what, three pictures here, in the selfie thread. The last one had more than neck up SOLELY BECAUSE I WAS EXCITED ABOUT MY HAIR. Which, for me, is another way of expressive myself creatively.
You cannot handle the fact that I have a very large chest and a small frame, and wearing a $2.00 scoop-neck tank top with a cardigan sweater results in THE SLIGHTEST AMOUNT of cleavage showing. I'm sorry, have you never seen a woman before??? You act like I posted a picture of myself in lingerie!!!
Let me tell you something, bud. I've been a web developer for 14 years. I started out when I was playing EverQuest at the age of 15 and I led a prominent guild on the Nameless server, which I started AND NO ONE KNEW I WAS A FEMALE TEENAGER. We needed a website and I taught myself HTML. I leveraged that skill to make money as a teenager making websites for other guilds, too.
I grew up playing video games and sports with mainly boys and I was treated AS AN EQUAL. In my development career, not ONE TIME HAVE I EVER BEEN TREATED AS LESS THAN AN EQUAL. In the gaming world, for the post part, I am treated AS AN EQUAL. My friends who stream on Twitch I know IN REAL LIFE and from playing video games alongside them in PVP.
Right now, I work at a Fortune 500 publisher and I am the LEAD CREATIVE on an Application that is a NEW GENRE and it was MY IDEA.
I ordinarily don't respond to trolls, but I would have to say that I have been more quiet on this forum than I have anywhere else, simply because of my lack of knowledge and that I've been slowly trying to learn more about something I am so passionate about. I was a lurker on this site for longer than I've been posting and I only started posting so that I could BUY THINGS OUT OF THE CLASSIFIEDS. It makes me really, incredibly angry that you could possibly call me an attention-seeker, when your post recent thread is nothing more than a desperate cry for attention that reeks of bull****.