[Joon] Your sexual photos and videos may have been posted and spread all over the Internet without your knowledge. Once posted, they are reprinted in various media and never completely disappear. The pain and fear of &#8220;not knowing who&#8217;s watching&#8221; lasts almost forever.
<h3> Google and Apple&#8217;s &#8220;video sharing&#8221; and &#8220;album collections&#8221; available to everyone.</h3>
In fact, an acquaintance of mine was a victim of this.
Her photos and videos were traded as &#8220;commodities&#8221; through smartphone apps called &#8220;Video Share&#8221; and &#8220;Album Collection. When a photo or video is downloaded, the contributor to the app receives money. Therefore, new sexual photos were posted one after another.
The photos and videos posted were collected in a variety of ways, including hacking, revenge pornography, voyeurism, and reproduction from some other site. Even young children are included.
Both applications were available on Google and Apple websites. Because they can be accessed by anyone and have users all over the world, the damage can spread rapidly.
Video Share had been downloaded at least 100,000 times on Google&#8217;s store Google Play. Album collections are ranked in popularity in Apple&#8217;s store App Store. The number of victims is enormous.
But Google and Apple do not want to face the damage. They continue to ignore my inquiries.
The Japanese authorities have not adequately regulated the giant platforms such as Google and Apple. The police have not caught up with them. Even at this very moment, the number of victims continues to increase.
As long as the structure of apps and platforms, which increase the damage, is preserved, similar crimes will continue. In order to stop the situation, I will pursue this &#8220;infernal structure.
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<h3> One day, I received a DM from an anonymous account that said, &#8220;Your naughty pictures and videos have been leaked.</h3>
In August 2022, I received a message from a female friend, A (19). It was close to midnight, but she had something she wanted to discuss with me over the phone.
A few days ago, Ms. A noticed a sudden increase of about 20 followers on her public SNS account. He became suspicious and found that he had received dozens of direct messages (DMs). All of them were from anonymous accounts that he had absolutely no idea about.
The contents of the DMs made fun of the fact that sexual photos and videos of Ms. A had been leaked on the Internet.
 The DMs made fun of Ms. A&#8217;s sexual photos and videos being leaked on the Internet.
 I saw the video and contacted you.
One man sent Ms. A a photo of his private parts out of the blue.
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Ms. A exchanged information with several people who had sent her DMs.
Apparently, her photos and videos were being passed on a smartphone app. The folder posted on the app included a screenshot that showed the name of Ms. A&#8217;s social networking account. Someone who saw it searched for Ms. A&#8217;s account on the SNS and contacted her.
Ms. A was surprised, but at the time could not believe it had happened to her. She immediately searched the Apple app store for the app she had heard the name of. At first glance, the app looked like an ordinary app for exchanging photos and videos.
What was posted were 53 photos and 19 videos. Along with selfies and photos taken with friends, the photos included those that would be considered sexual.
These were not taken at a single time. There are photos and videos spanning four to five years, from the most recent to photos taken when Ms. A was in middle school; Ms. A never shared them with anyone.
However, these photos and videos were stored in the cloud, synchronized with Ms. A&#8217;s smartphone.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been hacked.&#8221;
Ms. A had a hunch. The cloud had a login history with an unknown device.
The app used a picture of her face as the cover of the folder to make the user download a folder containing her picture. Below the mugshot, the number of people who had downloaded it was displayed. At that point, there were 282 people.
<h3> Deleted, deleted, deleted&#8230;</h3>
Using this button, Ms. A reported the folder where her photo was posted to the app&#8217;s operator.
After reporting the problem, she was anxious and kept checking her phone throughout the day. The next morning, the folder was deleted. I was also informed that it was good for the time being.
But 10 days later, the folder was restored, although I don&#8217;t know who did it.
This time, it did not disappear immediately after I reported it; the number of people who had downloaded Mr. A&#8217;s folder kept growing, and the number of people who had downloaded it had increased to 862, more than three times who had downloaded it when she first noticed the damage.
What is serious is that those who obtained Ms. A&#8217;s photos and videos can spread them through social networking sites. Those who obtained them through social networking sites would then spread them to other places. In this way, Ms. A&#8217;s photos and videos spread endlessly.
The app&#8217;s administrator would delete them, and then someone would restore them, and by A&#8217;s count, this had already happened seven times.
&#8220;The posts keep coming.&#8221;
During this time, the DM harassment of Ms. A&#8217;s social networking site also continued.
After she first became aware of the damage, Ms. A changed her social networking profile and user ID. However, the folder that was uploaded again even contained screenshots of Ms. A&#8217;s SNS after she had updated it.
Continue to Part 2
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<a href="https://friday.kodansha.co.jp/article/296098" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Part 2: &#8220;It all started with a curious post by a dating partner&#8230;Three years later, the video is still there&#8230;What about the police? What about the police? [continued in Part 2] [continued in Part 2] &#8220;It all started with a curious post by my boyfriend.</a>
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 While a student at Waseda University, Mariko Tsuji became a member of the Waseda Chronicle (now Tansa), and from June 2019 to June 2022 she also worked as a reporter for Toyo Keizai, writing about child abuse, psychiatry, and the reproductive business, etc. At Tansa, she created a pharmaceutical money database, examined the wasteful spending of the Corona temporary grant for local development, etc. He has also reported on the creation of a pharmaceutical money database and the verification of the wasteful spending of Corona's temporary local development subsidy. He is co-author of "Reporto: Gulag Archipelago.

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