DVS
A ghost from your dreams
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Not all pictures are digital, but once it reaches the Internet, it is. And if you're going to associate with people who won't ask your permission when they are going to use your picture on their face book page, good luck on that. Of course they have privacy restrictions and all, but some people consider someone they just met on line as a friend. People who have never experienced such a situation just don't think it will happen to them. If I had friends who like to post pictures on face book, I'd make sure to check for one of me. You have the right to demand that your face is blurred out, or something similar. And if your friend complains that it will ruin the picture, maybe they need to understand what's possible, too.People are mentioning photo shop and the consquences if your employer sees you, but pretty much all photos are digital now, you don't even have to put the photo on the web yourself, take any ordinary photo of you at a party, someone posts it on facebook, one of their friends thinks you look hot, so takes a copy and posts it on hot girlfriends etc etc etc.
Someone thinks you look hot so photoshops you onto a naked body.
Hey presto naked pics of you on the net, with out you doing anything. If employers don't even need to give a reason (who thought up that wonder of an idea), then they don't even need to tell you that they have seen your pic, so you would never know.
I'm not suggesting throwing caution to the wind, but an annonymous picture is going to be very difficult to trace even if you try.
I was on a sex site once, and an 18 year old girl had a bunch of pictures posted. This has been at least 10 years ago. I was checking out the site's pictures, like a sex pervert does, and found hers. She had quite a few, and every one had her face showing. But what was really stupid was she had her driver's license scanned and put that up, too. She hadn't blurred anything out, or even altered her address in any way. Anybody who wanted to know had several very good pictures of her face, as well as her street address, and the city and state she lived in.
Just like anybody else could, I made a copy of her license. I took it into Photoshop and changed things around. I didn't blur anything, but put in a different address, city and other things that I could. Then, I sent that copy back to her in an email, explaining what I did and how anybody in the world would know who she is, what she looks like and where she lives. I told her she should replace the real license with the one I altered, just to be safe.
You know what she said? She got pissed that I altered her license and said if she wanted to put her driver's license on the Internet, it was her business and I should leave her alone. Well, that's what I did. I wonder if she's still alive.
Something else that should make you think, before putting or letting someone else put a picture of you on the Internet. If you have kids, and some day you get into a heated divorce or maybe someone who used to be a friend of yours decides to get even with you and shows a link of your picture to the proper authorities, you will most likely get a knock on the door and your kids will be taken from you, until you can prove to a judge that you aren't the creepy pervert you seem to be from the Internet picture. Sure, it might be an innocent picture from your point of view, but like many things in life, it isn't what you think, it's what others think. I'm not talking about a face book image, but one that might have been taken from face book or some other legitimate site and put where you wouldn't want it to be.
It's very easy to get blamed for something just because it looks bad. It's 10 times more difficult to prove yourself innocent. Trust me, I've been there and it sucks when people don't believe you. It's common for a criminal to say they didn't do it, or that they were framed, so when you say the same thing do you think it's going to carry much weight? How do you prove a negative? If all you have is "I didn't do it" or "that's not really me", good luck.
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