You should always seek consent before sharing a photo or video. Consent is ongoing. Even if someone has said yes to an image being posted, they can change their mind and retract their consent. If someone asks you to remove a photo or video, you should do it no questions asked.
If you take a photo of yourself, edit and upload it to a social media site, you own the copyright in that image. If another business uses it without your permission, that is copyright infringement. On the other hand, if a third party or agency photographs you, you may not own the copyright in the image.
There are no laws preventing an individual taking your photo in a public place and posting it online. But, if someone has taken a photo of you while on your property, you may be able to take legal action against them for trespass to prevent the photos from being used or published.
Taken without permission
If the photo or video was taken by someone acting in a personal capacity, the Privacy Act doesn't apply — because it doesn't cover individuals. In some situations, there may be state or territory laws that prevent someone photographing your private activities without your consent.
You can remove unwanted photos that someone posts directly to your profile or business page by selecting the three dot (...) menu icon in the top right corner of the post that contains the photo. Select either Hide from Timeline or Delete to remove it.
File a police report
If you might know who the offender is, take note of any communication or evidence to back that up and bring to police. At the very least, this gives you a paper trail, which can be useful if you decide to pursue legal action.
The First Amendment protects their right to share the images they want. Exceptions exist for copyright violations or illegal pornography, including revenge porn.
Appropriation, also referred to as misappropriation, is the unauthorized use of a person's name, photograph, likeness, voice, or endorsement, often for financial gain. Although appropriation may involve speech or communication, the First Amendment does not protect its practice.
Unfollow the person who posted it. Block the person who posted it. Keep in mind that these options may keep you from seeing the post, but the person who posted it and other people on Instagram may still be able to see the post unless it's removed.
Australia does not have clear definitive laws when it comes to privacy and photography. We don't have laws that give you a right to privacy in general, which means there's no law stating that an image of you can't be used without your permission.
Publishing or communicating recordings of conversations
Even if you were involved in a conversation that was legally recorded, it's still illegal to communicate the conversation or publish it without the permission of the other people involved in the conversation (with some exceptions).
Under Australian law, you must hold all copyright rights in a film or photo in order to publish it online. If not, you must obtain a Release or other written authority from the party or parties having copyright, granting you the right to publish the work online.
If you discover your image or video has been posted without your permission, you can contact the person who posted it if you know who they are and request that they delete it. If that person continues to refuse, you can pursue legal action.
Privacy law
"Personal information" includes photographic images, videos and sound recordings where an individual can be identified or his or her identity is reasonably apparent from the image or sound recording.
Under Instagram's Terms of Use and Community Guidelines you can only post content to Instagram that doesn't violate someone else's intellectual property rights. The best way to help make sure that what you post to Instagram doesn't violate copyright law is to only post content that you've created yourself.
The most basic definition of a unlawful image crime in Pennsylvania is possessing, viewing, distributing, producing, or coercing a minor to participate in any type of material that shows or simulates a person under 18 years of age in a sexual act.
Unauthorized Media means media and media cartridges that are not Authorized Media.
What is image theft? Image theft occurs when someone copies a photo without the permission of the copyright holder. It's a common misconception that images found in Google, or available under a 'royalty-free' license, are free of copyright and therefore free to use.
If you don't own the rights to that picture, you have no legal right to present that picture as your own. You did not take the photo, and the photo does not being to you. If you are using an image without obtaining permission from the owner of the photo, you are violating copyright laws.
No, it is not illegal in the US.
Copyright of images
Photos are generally protected by copyright. This means the person who took the photo usually owns it. If anyone wants to use that photo, including sharing it online, they need to have the permission of the person who owns it.
The number of times something is reported doesn't determine whether or not it's removed from Facebook. We use the same guidelines each time we review whether a profile goes against our Community Standards.
You've probably Googled “is there a list of users who viewed my profile” or “list of users who viewed my profile on Facebook”. Unfortunately, the majority of these articles will tell you that there's no definitive list or metric that tracks that.