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'Ripped from the cloud'; The celebrities whose images were stolen by hackers never meant to make them public and now have no control over their use.
Newspaper | Montreal Gazette
Date | 8.9.2014
Language | English
Country | Canada
Topic Tags | pornography, privacy, sexting, threat, Twitter
Summary | Recently Apple's iCloud was hacked and nude photographs of many female celebrities (Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, ...) were publicly shared online. This attack on celebrity's personal privacy is compared to the Swiss scandal secretary who tweeted nude images of herself at her workplace. While the celebrity nude image leak is seen as vile abuse, the Swiss secretary's misfortune is seen as her own fault. It is naïve to expect to be able to keep a Twitter account with 11'000 followers secret from one's employer.
Image Description | Photograph of Steve Jobs presenting the new iCloud technology.
Disgraced cop facing new sexual misconduct charges
Newspaper | The Hamilton Spectator
Date | 18.9.2014
Language | English
Country | Canada
Topic Tags | sexting
Summary | A Hamilton police offices is being charged with sexual misconduct with witnesses and other individuals connected to the victims in his investigative cases. The charges include sexting, sex, as well as sexual assault. (Note that sexual assault does not necessarily mean forced rape in Canada but also applies to instances where power/authority balance is highly uneven between participants.) The police officer pleads guilty to nine instances of misconduct. This shows that sexting is an officially used word with a fixed meaning within the Canadian police and that it is an important enough genre of sexual misconduct to be listed alongside sex and sexual assault.
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Cops warn of increase in sexting; explicit photos could ruin someone’s life
Newspaper | Windsor Star
Date | 17.9.2014
Language | English
Country | Canada
Topic Tags | sexting, threat, youth
Summary | More and more cases of teenagers' sexts becoming public are reported. These youths feel less vulnerable showing their body through an image than in person but really they are making themselves much more vulnerable to abuse because they share a record of their intimate behavior. Many male teenagers collect girls' sexts as trophies that they can whip out any time and share with their peers. Oftentimes, vindictive ex-partners publish nude images online after the breakup. Because of the large reach of the internet victims of sexting abuse can become infamous over night which ruins their reputation, makes them guilty of producing or distributing child pornography, and has even lead one 13 year old girl to commit suicide. Parents are urged to have frank discussions about this issue with their children.
Image Description | Video and portrait of the interviewee from the sexual assault crisis center.
Image Tags | female(s)
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