Woman wins legal judgement forbidding anyone from sharing her photos online

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34. There is no protection against this sort of thing, and no fault can be attributed to the victim.

Blaming the victim is wrong. Some scumbag committed a crime.

Most of us, if we found a cell phone, would treat it like a found wallet, looking at it just enough to figure out how we might return it to the owner. Only a criminal would see how much loot they could get before the credit cards were canceled, only a criminal would upload the content to the internet. Most of us would feel a little embarrassed if we saw a photo obviously not intended for our eyes.

Electronics makes these crimes more likely, and the internet makes photos easy to access, but even before electronics there could be some creep taking photographs through your window without your knowledge and selling the photos in the back of a pulp magazine... or a photo store clerk making copies of a customer's kinky kodachromes... or a lover misplacing some racy Polaroids.

On the other hand most of the stuff on the internet isn't stolen, it's manufactured, just like the stuff in the pulp magazine ads used to be, with voyeur customers pretending it's real, or if they are not too bright, actually believing it's real.

And celebrities certainly have trouble with the paparazzi... although most of that is manufactured too.

I think the grievousness of this assault has a lot to do with the nature of Facebook and other electronic means of associating the photographs with the victim. I don't like Facebook for that reason. In most casual situations firm identities do not make the internet a safer, more enjoyable place. In the real world I don't check the identification of people I'm casually chatting with in a bar or a line at Disneyland.