NSFW kinda- What is your expectation of privacy on the internet while using free image posting sites?

I guess I don’t have any real expectation of privacy since I don’t use these sites. Not even for non-racy photos. I do use one such site, and I have about four or five photos there. They are photos I link to here. So I want to share them, but anonymously. But if I ever took a racy photo, I think the last place I would put any of them is on any web site. My machine is where you would have to go to find them. Not that you’d have any success. Or rather, I would think that not finding pictures of my naked fat stomach would be considered a huge success, since if you did find them, you’d probably lose a decade off your life!

Internet? Privacy?

I think that many people fail at Internet and don’t realize that there are a few billion other people here; many seem to not understand that you can have millions of peeping toms at your window, that the stuff you post n Facebook that you thought only your friends could see is also viewable by anybody else who wanders by their wall.

So, I am guessing that their expectation of privacy is similar to how it would be if the other party were physically present in their bedroom.

Better to assume no privacy on the social Internet.

Privacy doesn’t exist on the internet IMO. Its up to the user to decide what gets out and what doesn’t. Unfortunately a lot of people are naive and believe because it has a password or is friends only its somehow secure.

It involves no such password hacking. Basically sites like photobucket let you set your photos to private so that only you can see the link and click on them in your albums or whatever. But they still have the link in their system, it’s just no one can see it. But they name the links with basically just the file name you gave the photo, which in most cases is just the generic name given by the camera that took it (DSN0001, etc) or a common name (Me, for your eyes only, etc, etc). “Hackers” (which you could very loosely call these people) developed software that basically just tries all of the different URL links very quickly (thousands in a matter of minutes) and pulls any pictures it finds… low and behold if they’re dedicated enough they often find private photos.

As per the actual question…. Obviously it’s amoral to be doing this to people, but if you’re stupid enough to put nude photos on photobucket in the first place… then I really have no sympathy for you.

Yes nothing is private. But for me personally I give a dam if people find nude photos of me. Its not like I am running for office.

But if they had photos of me killing Mr Plum in the library with the spanner I’d worry.

@Shippy Are you attractive, are you female, where can one find those photos?
lol

I have zero expectations of privacy anywhere on the Internet.

Long before all this recent focus on photos and “sexting” there was concern over email privacy, etc.

The basic rule of thumb for anything is “Dont put anything on the Internet (pics or written) that you would be embarrased by if it appeared on the front page of the NY Times (or your local newspaper)”.

That’s really the only insurance you have against having later regrets or embarrassment.

There is no such thing as Internet privacy. It’s a total oxymoron. It does NOT exist.

I wish that more parents would firmly instill this truth repeatedly into their kids minds right from the time they use their very first mouse or trackball and as often as needed thereafter.

I have zero expectation of privacy anywhere on the internet. If one other person can see it, it’s at risk.

My expectation is that anything published on the Internet is public.