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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Hope everyone is well is evening. I'd like to ask for some advice. I reported a user to admin some time ago for distributing images that had been sent to her privately and in confidence by other users on this site. This individual sent several of these to me without my asking. The content included face pics and xxx-rated content with faces clearly visible. Two of the individuals in the photos were recognisable to me.
Admin regrettably did nothing.
The same individual continued to do this. Again I reported her. Again nothing.
This evening, I tried to contact the site owners, only to receive an automated reply directing me to the site FAQ. The message I sent read as follows, with the username in question blanked out:
"I have previously attempted to report a user (username blanked out) but nothing has been done about it. This user has repeatedly sent me multiple private images of other users without their consent. To be clear, I did not at any stage request these images, and on receiving them I specifically stated to the aforementioned user that what she was doing was wrong.
This represents a data breach and a serious violation of privacy. I have firm evidence of this, and have saved my whatsapp conversations with the aforementioned user as a matter of record.
I realise that the site does not have control over images exchanged on whatsapp. However, the majority of the users images that were sent voluntarily to me without their consent were images taken directly from this website. Unlike whatsapp photos, this is something the website shares responsibility for. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the website has been urged by its users on multiple occasions to install a mechanism whereby users are unable to save or download watermarked images. The second is that this users behaviour has been reported to you, and you have done nothing about it.
I would appreciate a non-automated response"
I can appreciate that the rules of common sense with regard to sending photos apply, but realistically if people don't exchange photos, they don't meet. If this sort of thing happens without consequence, fewer and fewer will be prepared to send a photo in future. While some people won't care if their private photos get forwarded on without their knowledge (and fair enough), a lot will.
Not unexpectedly, when I confronted this user about this today, I was blocked and a status went up on her profile about her being hassled by a guy who "wasn't getting what he wanted".
This really is a matter of concern. If the site gets shut down because of a GDPR issue or a lawsuit, as unfortunate as that might be, it has only itself to blame.
The bottom line is that regardless of whether or not people here get on with each other, or like each other, or meet up with each other, privacy needs to be respected.
I'd appreciate your advice on how to contact the site admin directly, rather than via an automated system, given that the latter is clearly not working in this case. |