I took a nude photos, three years ago. I sent the pictures to someone I was talking to. Luckily, the photos were taken from the neck down, or people could see who I was. I don't have solid proof that the picture could have been posted anywhere else online, though I got really nervous about the possibility of it happening. I wasn't dating the person who I sent the picture to, though we just stopped talking because he thought I said something 'offensive'. Here are my questions:

1. I'm thinking of contacting the person I sent the picture to, and question what they did with the pictures. Good idea or bad idea?
2. do porn websites allow photos that from people for their sites? (I'm asking so I know if it's possible)
3. is it possible to retrace pictures using your IP address?
4. I took the picture three years ago, though took pictures after I took the picture. Is possible to recover pictures after that time?
5. Is it illegal for someone to post pictures of someone without their permission?

Unfortunately, I misplaced have the camera I took the picture with. If I did, I could possibly recover the picture. Right now, I'd like to know my options. I learned after this incident, I would never send pictures like this ever again. As I said earlier, I have no proof that the pictures were posted online. If anyone can help answer my questions, I'd really appreciate it.

If this is over three years ago, I would just drop it. Don't contact anyone, don't ask any questions. You would be better off forgetting about it. Why stir up trouble where there is any ?

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1. Bad idea
2. Most porn sites use professionals, but there are many amateur sites that accept submissions
3. No
4. No
5. Possibly

Even if you found the camera, you could do nothing. Once the pictures were transmitted, you can't retrieve them. Also, unless you placed restrictions on their use when they were sent, you gave tacit approval for the recipient to use as they wanted.

But the bottom line here is that you probably will never know what happened to those photos. Since they were from the neck up and unless they showed some identifying mark (birthmark, tattoo, etc.) there is no way to know they were you. So I would just forget about it and move on.

I would avoid contacting this person, especially if you parted on bad terms. Why? There's a chance he has completely forgotten about the photos, maybe lost them, maybe they're sitting in some folder on his computer that he's forgotten about. And even if he hasn't forgotten about him, if you ask him, you might draw attention to the pictures, and if he's unhappy with you, you might place ideas in his head about sharing the pictures and make him more likely to do this. If you have a strong bond of trust with the person, it might be a good idea for you to talk to him, but since you haven't talked to him, this is not the case.

Personally? I wouldn't worry about the pictures if they don't show your face. The only people who would ever be able to identify the photos as you would be those who have personally seen your naked body, and presumably, it's not going to be a big deal if those people saw the pictures anyway.

You would likely have some degree of protection under copyright law and you may have other types of protection, but it would all depend on how he used the photos. For example, if he was selling the photos on a porn site (this seems highly unlikely) you might have legal recourse. However, enforcing something like that is going to be difficult. In all likelihood, if he ever posted the pics on a website, you would probably never find out, and probably no one would and he'd be the only one who knew, unless he specifically told someone. But if he shows them privately to a friend, there's nothing you could do because you showed the pictures freely to him at the time.

I'd just forget about it, it's not worth worrying about. And I know that even if I knew someone's naked photos were somewhere on the internet in a situation like this, I would not judge them for it, and I don't think anyone that matters ever would.