In Nude Celebrity Photos, Privacy Collides With the Wild Web – NYTimes.com

Nude Photos of Jennifer Lawrence Are Latest Front in Online Privacy Debate

After a trove of nude photos of celebrities was posted online, some champions of anything-goes social media were rueful.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/technology/trove-of-nude-photos-sparks-debate-over-online-behavior.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The episode “should be treated like a sex crime, a privacy invasion taken to an extreme,” said Jules Polonetsky, executive director of the Future of Privacy Forum, an advocacy group based in Washington. “Sites allowing the sharing of these pictures can and should be taking proactive action to remove these pictures.”