Jailtime: for Teen Who Posted Nude Photo of His Ex-Girlfriend on MySpace & for Employee Caught with Illegal Porn

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I've talked several times about some of the risks of using the social networking sites, such as here and here.

Here is an example of how others can post information about you on these sites that will continue to haunt you for years to come.

Two years ago the then 17-year-old boy posted a nude photo of his then 15-year-old girlfriend on her MySpace page. Now, two years later, he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for posting it.

It is likely that photo is now out on the Internet in many, many places.

These sites can be fun to use, but always remember that once you put something out on the Internet it is likely it will be out there until the Internet goes away.

And for goodness sake, *THINK* before allowing yourself to be photographed in ways you don't want the world to see!!!!

Do you know if the people on your network are downloading these types of photos? Or even worse...illegal pornography? You don't want to have your company making headlines like Disney did today; "Disney Employee Arrested on Child Porn Charges."

This is one very horribly sick, demented young man. The story did not say the photos were found on Disney's network, but Disney got the full brunt of bad publicity from the actions of one of their employees, even if he was on his own computer.

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.

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My initial reaction to this post was... "He ONLY got 30 DAYS?!"
I know many schools are now taking what's been said or posted on social networking sites seriously, and rightfully so.
In a way, internet gossip can be much more devastating to one's reputation than something said in real life... and this can mean a person's reputation, or an entire organization's.

Posted by: mila | September 4, 2007 3:08 PM

Rubbish to mix these two cases in one article. The first is a commonplace idiot, the second is sicker by orders of magnitude. Both are big problems...

Posted by: Carl | January 14, 2008 2:52 PM

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