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How to prevent your Pics from being lifted: Part 2 of 2
Monday, October 26, 2015 0:02
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There are many reasons someone might right-click on your image and “Save image as…”
Porn, Sex and Dating Sites
- A woman might steal your blog headshot and use it for her dating site profile.
- A perv might take the picture of your child off your Facebook page and put it on a porn site.
- A person who runs a racy dating site might take your image and use it to advertise his service.
Scams
- Someone might use, without your knowledge, a photo of your house for a rental scam.
- Your motorcycle, jet ski, boat, puppy…you name it…could be used for scam for-classified sale ads.
- Your avatar may be used for a phony Facebook account to then be posted in the comments section of news articles pitching some get-rich-quick scheme.
Fantasy Lives
- Your image could be used by a lonely person to create a fictitious Facebook account.
- A person with a real Facebook account may be so desperate for friends that they use your photo to create a fake account to then add as a friend.
- Someone you know may steal your photo (such as an ex-lover) and create a social media account in your name, then post things on it that make you look really bad.
How can you protect your digital life?
- For your social media accounts, make sure your privacy settings are on their highest so that the whole world can’t see your life.
- Watermark your images so that they have less appeal to image thieves, but keep in mind that they’ll have less appeal to you too.
- It’s one thing when an image of your house was stolen for a rental scam, but it’s a whole new animal if an image of your naked body or you engaged in a sex act was stolen. So don’t put racy images online. Never.
- Explain to your kids about the risks of stolen images.
- Make sure their social media privacy settings are high.
- It’s possible your smartphone automatically stores pictures you take online. Turn off this feature.
Robert Siciliano is an identity theft expert to TheBestCompanys.com discussing identity theft prevention.
Robert Siciliano personal security and identity theft expert and speaker is the author of 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Your Identity Was Stolen.
Source: http://robertsiciliano.com/blog/2015/10/25/how-to-prevent-your-pics-from-being-lifted-part-2-of-2/
