When Having Somebody Transfer Your Data From An Old Phone To A New One, Delete Your Self-Porn
from the helpful-reminders dept
A former Miss Britain who posed for Playboy is suing UK mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse after one of its employees copied some "very intimate" pictures from her phone and tried to sell them to some newspapers. The woman, Danielle Lloyd, left her phone at the shop so employees could transfer data from it onto a new phone, and is seeking 50,000 pounds in damages forThank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Why would you think that? Once you tell someone something private, it's no longer private.
That being said, the guy certainly had no right to sell those pictures.
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So once someone reveals something in confidence to their doctor or lawyer or priest or spouse, it's no longer private in your opinion, eh? That's funny. I think most of the sober world would disagree with you.
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Case in point, as a service provider our employees keep customer data on their laptops. As part of our security policy we whole disk encrypt all of our laptops because we assume that our customers have a reasonable expectation that we will protect their information while it's in our custody.
So, in this particular case I would disagree with "the presumption that the content we capture will remain private should probably diminish"
Had she left the phone on a train/bus/plane then I'd agree.
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Assuming they are using decent encryption.
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whole disk encryption
I realize that it doesn't cover all scenarios but my point was that as a service provider I have an obligation to secure my customers' data.
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a lot of places just don't have guidelines for that sort of thing. retailers in particular are very vague on those sorts of things, and a lot of people who work for retailers probably just don't care anyway.
for example, in all the corporate IT departments that i have worked for, the only time the computer usage policy was ever enforced (porn or otherwise) was as an excuse to terminate someone who was already in bad standing. the rest of the time i run into questionable material, the policy is pretty much "don't ask, don't tell". on the occasions when someone was doing something illegal, the company only took action after law enforcement got involved.
so, going through people's personal stuff is bad, but so is putting your personal stuff out there for people to go through. it's also a bit naive to think that a retail employee would adhere to a store policy about personal data, or that such a policy even exists in the first place.
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Haha, sounds like your classic lose/lose/lose
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Yes.
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Quick, somebody find those pictures and place the URL in the comments below.
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this thread is useless without photos
i have never thought about selling them, but bottom line is if you don't want to share don't leave them on the device...
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Any pictures?
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???
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@#15
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc107/bastardlybutta/bastardly-photos/album16/danielle- lloyd-01130803.jpg
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Private property
I agree that she was stupid to leave those on there, but I also think she has the right to sue and should win, because I would consider the pictures on her phone to be her private property which should be protected.
She trusted the employees to not steal anything of hers from the phone. I think it's similar to if she accidentally left her purse out in the open while she went to the bathroom or something, and one of the employees went into her purse and stole money, items, or private pictures of her.
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What a trashy article
First off: Why should Danielle Lloyd's photos/data/privacy be regarded in any different light because she used to bare her assets for a living? Just because she once posed for money doesn't make it less of a crime for somebody to steal her private photos and try to sell them.
Second: Why the hell compare data stored locally on her own device to data stored remotely on the web? There is no comparison between the two things, except that they are both possible locations for storing an image. It's like saying that there is no difference between papers stored in a safe in your bedroom and papers stored in a box on a shelf in some big warehouse. Would it not be normal to expect a locksmith to refrain from stealing your property when it was being transferred from an old safe to a new one?
Third: Yeah she was stupid not to erase them from the phone before giving it over for transfer. Maybe she just didn't care if the tech saw the photos so she just left them on. That doesn't mean it was okay for the slimeball to steal them and try to sell them.
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glamour model doesn't matter
Just cause I cook a meal for you once doesn't mean I become your private fucking chef forevermore.
She might have been foolish, but the douchebag who stole the pictures and tried to sell them is the bad guy here, and it's gross to pretend otherwise.
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hyopthical situation
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Of course! That's just the free market! If I didn't want that to happen then I shouldn't give you that information in the first place.
And don't whine about not being able to get a loan without it. If you don't like it, then go somewhere else. You don't have any "right" to a loan in the first place. And you shouldn't expect the government to come in and "protect" you either. I'm tired of paying my tax dollars to have the government protect stupid people from their own stupidity. People are such babies these days.
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That's not always practical. Employers and banks are required to collect your social security number as a matter of federal law. As for everyone else, try withholding it. Your life quickly becomes a nightmare convincing clueless service reps and receptionists that they are not required to collect it.
The cost of identity theft was ~$56.6 billion in 2006, and you can be sure that cost is being passed on. So it's not just your tax dollars being spent on protecting people, it's the cost of using services affect by identity theft(which is in large part accomplished with access SSNs).
Enjoy that free market for SSNs.
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then I guess that she is owed 150K per pic ?
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Don't be such an asshole
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Tone?
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There are ways to lock and protect information but I am uncertain that it would apply to this case.
This site: http://www.justaskgemalto.com is usually very informative about digital security issues pertaining to mobile phones.
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