Help, I’m naked on the net!
November 10th, 2009
Private photos can still be obtained. Both Paris Hilton and Kåre Conradi are examples of people who will always be remembered for just that. But it’s also the common man in the street. Far more often than you might think.
The German-American company ProComb is one of the companies which have found a new niche, and often stepped on with a helping hand if you would be unsure about the pictures you took with holiday flirt ended up in other places than in the private photo album. The saumfarer Web for pictures of you in sexy poses - if you are willing to pay.
The company, based in Dortmund, told ABC News that only in the United States and Germany shooting around 2300 adults themselves or each other while enjoying themselves in sengehalmen. But what most people do not realize is that 20-30% of these pictures on one way or another finds its way onto the web.
Ex-girlfriend and hackers
The German-American company specializing in finding the private pictures and help the customer to get the photos removed.
Manager for the company, Torsten Gems, confirms that it is often eager revenge ex-girlfriend who see fit to broadcast that you once shared together. Stolen mobile phones or hackers who have hacked the computer is also a common reason why the pictures spread.
- Besides our experience, many showing the way forward on the webcam is not aware that the video stream can be stored, and distributed afterwards, explaining Gems, who also adds that the vast majority who will contact the women.
With specially developed hardware seeks the company through the net every day to find the homemade porn on existing sites, and the new ones that constantly pop up. The archive consists of over 240 million images and video clips.
To find the files makes the company a biometric profile of the customer based on a standard passport photo, which then is compared with the images in the archive. How can millions of images be limited to a few hundred which is then manually reviewed by the company’s employees.
Can do great damage
We find images from the customer we will contact the website that has published these and pray that they will be removed. If the matter should be reported to the police is up to the customer, “says Gems.
He tells of examples where the images have done much damage. They have broken relationships, job opportunities and friendships, often several years after the pictures were taken. The skeletons can fall out of the closet when you least expect it.
- Our statistics show that this is a fairly common phenomenon. We have customers from all over the world, mainly in the United States and Germany, but also some from Scandinavia and Norway.
Natural Gems NOK does not want potential customers to refrain from playing with the camera, but comes with the following tips when ABC News asked how best to ensure that you will not find themselves on the net in the net:
- Do not post pictures on the mobile storage devices such as phones, laptops or USB sticks. It can also be a good idea to put private files on an external hard drive.
Leave a Reply