What do you do if someone is using your pictures?

Contact the Website: While you could just immediately block the fake account, don’t. First, report the page or account to the website host. Explain that someone has created a fake account with your photographs/ images. If the site or app contacts you to verify your information, respond promptly.

If someone reposts your photo without permission (a license), they are liable to YOU! Even if they didn’t know it’s illegal, it’s copyright infringement. … It does not matter if someone reposted your photo but gave you credit – it’s still copyright infringement.

Although taking a photo of you in a public setting is not an invasion of privacy, if the person captures you in your home and then uses it on social media without your consent, you have legal recourse. An attorney may classify this type of action as defamation as well.

People can‘t take that without your permission.” The key to being sued on social media is, defamation. It has to be a post that is harmful to your reputation in a tangible way. … Just posting that picture of someone that is unflattering, that’s not defamation.”

In some instances, pictures posted of you on someone else’s social media account are an invasion of privacy and you can sue. … Someone cannot post your picture or name on their social media account without your consent to promote a product or service or to profit in another way.

Let’s talk about sext. Sexting is extremely common among adults – but maybe not for the reasons you think. New research from the Sexuality, Sexual Health & Sexual Behavior Lab in the Texas Tech University Department of Psychological Sciences shows that two-thirds of people who sext do so for non-sexual reasons.

Tips for safer sexting

1. don’t include your name in the photo/video.
2. don’t include your face or any identifying features in the photo/video such as birthmarks, tattoos or piercings.
3. don’t include any information that may identify you in the photo/video (e.g. anything with your name, address or school name on it)

If someone sends you a sext, never under any circumstances should you share it or forward it to other people. That includes: Sending it to someone else – even “just one person”. Showing it to somebody else – even if they promise not to tell anyone they saw it.

Sexting can result in significant fines, especially if the teen is convicted of a child pornography charge. Fines can easily exceed $5,000. Probation. An adult convicted of sexting can also face probation of at least 12 months, but typically longer.

Here are a few tips:

1. Make an alternate suggestion. …
2. Steer the conversation in a less sexy direction. …
3. Mention your grandmother. …
4. Offer a simple refusal. …
5. Just be completely honest. …
6. Laugh it off, or call them out. …
7. Run for the hills.

Knowing the right thing to say or, most importantly, how to respond to a sext will only make things steamier between you and your current person….She suggests starting with something like:

• “I can’t stop thinking about you.”
• “I miss you/your body so much.”
• “I get so turned on when I think about kissing you.”

1. Be Direct Sometimes it’s just best to be direct and share how you’re feeling.

1. “Wow! So I’m flattered by all of this, really, because I think you’re great – I’m just not there yet. …
2. “Ha – this was really unexpected! You know I love you as a friend, but I just don’t see you that way… …
3. “Heyyyy now!

There was, however, a downside to sexting: the researchers found that people who sexted several times a week, and those who sexted every day or multiple times per day, were more likely to experience conflict and mixed feelings in their relationships, more likely to use social media to engage in behaviours linked to …