Woman wins legal judgement forbidding anyone from sharing her photos online

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43. huh?

"Personally, I believe that if you put it on line, you ***should*** expect it to get around". The word "should" *is* there.

if the person whose information is online is the one who put it there, voluntarily, then they should have thought it through a bit more before uploading.

However, in this case, the woman, who a. did not upload the images and b. was the victim of a criminal act, did not voluntarily put her personal information out in the street; therefore, she would not have any expectation that her business should or would be. However, someone who did not own the device on which these images are stored, took what was not theirs and did what they had no business doing.

This is no different than opening someone's mail, reading it, buying space in a newspaper and printing the contents--or worse yet, getting 1,000 flyers printed up of the information and papering a parking lot with it in an afternoon. Most sites, in their tos' say that you must be the owner of the images: and the person who uploaded them was not the owner of either the images or the device.