Police now investigating nude photos of local women on porn website in Newfoundland

A too agree that it should be illegal to publish someone's private picture without the consent of the person(s) appearing in the picture and specially if that picture can cause to be ridiculed and bullied.

But adults who produce nude pictures of themselves or who agree that someone else produces those nude pictures must acknoledge the risk they are taking of that picture possibly leaking online. Someone might lose an unencrypted thumbdrive, get his laptop or tablet stolen, forget a memory card in his phone and sell it on eBay...

Then there are those who do not understand how the internet works and who take nude selfpics and then send those nude pics to someone on the internet. As soon as you do this, you create copies of your pic in every server, every switch and every equipment that is used to transmit your pic to the final recipient.

Lastly, the government (NSA, GCHQ, CSEC) mirror and keep copies of stuff that travels through the internet and many other companies like Google have the capacity to do that too... If you really insist that a government employee must see your nude pics, keep doing what you are doing right now...

In short

  • As soon as you take or allow a nude picture of yourself to be taken, there exists a risk that more people than you expect might see your pics.

  • As soon as your pic is sent to someone else on the internet, copies of your pic are being made that you have no control over.

  • Governments intercept a lot of internet traffic and, in order to find child pornographers, they might have to look at the pictures that the automated system has identified as possible porn to figure out the age of the person on the picture.

So do what you want but if you allow nude pic of yuo to be taken, as soon as they will leave the devices that you control, you also loose control over those pictures.

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