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I’m pretty sure the fact that they were naked photos of women being leaked without their consent to masturbating men everywhere makes it a crime of a sexual nature. Just sayin'.

In the case of Eric Garner there was videotape, so everyone knows what happened. The medical examiner confirmed it was a homicide due to a chokehold and compression of the chest.

Apple makes it incredibly difficult to tell what information is being shared/gathered and where it's going. You actually don't have to opt-in to iCloud backup of everything on your phone. If you have iOS 5 or later, you are automatically connected to iCloud, and all of your files are backed up there. It's all in one of those ginormous agreements that no one reads when you update your phone's operating system, or activate your new phone.

I would wager that most people who have iPhones are not actually aware that their data is already on iCloud. It's not so much a case of "How would anyone entrust their information to the iCloud" -- it's more of, "How did my information end up there without my knowing?" And, theoretically, having your iPhone data backed up on iCloud is no different than entering your credit card information online -- the information is encrypted and supposedly stored safety. Do most of us still feel a twinge of anxiety when we type in our credit card number on Amazon or Telecharge? Or when we log into our bank's website? Or when we are logging into our employer's network through VPN or WiFi. iCloud is no different from any of those things.

The fact is, life in this age entails entrusting your information to a variety of servers. Some of those servers are more secure than others, but nothing is ever 100% secure. iCloud is just a small drop in the bucket in terms of how much of our information can be hacked into. How sheltered do we expect people to live their lives?

Although it's unlike anyone would want a random stranger's photos or non-financial info:

How to Stop iPhone from Automatically Loading Your Camera Roll to iCloud

Updated On: 9/3/14 at 12:24 AM

What the hackers did was completely wrong, and the celebrities are victims. They had a reasonable expectation to privacy and that is why the legal system will deal with the hackers when and if they are caught.

With that said, I still think that these women are really stupid and internet illiterate. I deal with tons of sensitive information and know how to dispose of it, encrypt it, and send it securely. A quick Google search will teach you everything you need to know. There will always be someone to commit a crime and if you leave something somewhere where it can be stolen, it will be. It's the sad reality of life.

If I left a rolex in my locked car, for example, I have reasonable expectation to assume it won't be taken. But I also know that if I wait long enough, someone is going to smash the window, take it and run.

(That car example, btw, did happen to a celebrity: http://perezhilton.com/2013-03-14-julianne-hough-car-robbed-jewelry-stolen#.VAa6-_SwJcQ)

They had a reasonable expectation to privacy and that is why the legal system will deal with the hackers when and if they are caught. With that said, I still think that these women are really stupid and internet illiterate.

That is pretty much how I feel about all of this... now where are these pictures of Dave Franco?

I liked this take from The Atlantic.

"There’s a reason why the public tends to revel in hacked or stolen nude pictures. It’s because they were taken without consent. Because the women in them (and it’s almost always women who are humiliated this way) did not want those shots to be shared.

If Jennifer Lawrence was to pose naked on the cover of Playboy, for example, I’m sure it would be a best-selling issue. But it wouldn’t have the same scandalous, viral appeal as private images stolen from her phone. Because if she shared nude images consensually, then people wouldn’t get to revel in her humiliation. And that’s really the point, isn’t it? To take a female celebrity down a notch? (We have a term for when this is done to non-celebrity women: “revenge porn.”)"

What's Wrong With Checking Out Stolen Nude Photos of Celebrities The ethics of looking away

I've seen just about every episode and Law & Order: SVU, so I can say with certainty that this is not a sex crime. Stabler and Benson will not be investigating.

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"That picture you thought you were sending (through the internet or text) traveled! It's out there."
I get what you are saying about privacy but these women didn't necessarily send their pics to anyone.
I think if you have a picture stored on your phone their should be a reasonable expectation that other people will not have access to it. I think many people who are using an iPhone have no idea that there data is being stored on an iCloud. And I don't think Apple does a very good job at informing consumers what the dangers of that may be.

"Those who will cap to these will gap to nudes be they official or not."
Huh?

*ETA And while this might not be a sex crime it's clearly a crime. Otherwise I would imagine the FBI would not be investigated and the hacker who did it wouldn't be on the run.

Updated On: 9/3/14 at 09:26 AM

Whoops, that was supposed to be fap, but my autocorrect took over.

"It is ironic that people get up in arms when the government spies on us with the NSA, but we somehow are less outraged when hackers break multiple federal laws to access and then distribute private personal pictures of celebrities."

Oh, but people aren't up in arms, YWIW. Nobody cares anymore. Our privacy means diddly these days. Don't be so 2013. Big Brother is here and people numbed to it. And the people who are calling these women "stupid" for having personal photos in the Cloud are absolutely beneath contempt. It's the online equivalent of "You were asking for it, baby."

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OriginalGuy did it for the bitcoins

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Updated On: 9/3/14 at 11:57 AM

MikeInTheDistrict for the win with "You actually don't have to opt-in to iCloud backup of everything on your phone. If you have iOS 5 or later, you are automatically connected to iCloud, and all of your files are backed up there. It's all in one of those ginormous agreements that no one reads when you update your phone's operating system, or activate your new phone."

Several attorney friends of mine who are freelance writers on the side will not even compose text on their tablets due to fears of having their intellectual property jacked by an employee of their cloud service provider.

I'm also bothered by the sharing agreements between certain social media networks that an unwary user can inadvertently trigger. If not careful, some of our less tech-savvy family members and acquaintances can consent to have our contact information on their phones uploaded to the servers of 3rd party service providers. I went back and forth with a certain social media network that reached out to me via my smartphone for a connection as a result of a colleague syncing up his account on the SM network with a corporate recruiting network to which I belong.

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Updated On: 9/3/14 at 02:46 PM