Re: Sex website anguish

Webmanager_CritEst wrote:
Tuesday, 11th November 2008

A LEADING Sheffield businessman and parish councillor made the
shocking discovery that his photo and personal details had been
plastered on sex websites.

Married father-of-one Simon Bower was horrified to find he had been
appearing on gay dating services - after a tip off from a friend.

Profiles including his photo, age, height and weight had been posted
on three websites.

There was even a poll asking browsers to rate his looks.

Mr Bower, managing director of Pollards coffee shop and Ecclesfield
parish councillor, called in solicitors to get the details removed.

The 39-year-old had used the social networking site Facebook but now
wants to warn other people about the dangers of the internet.

He said: "I had a phone call from a friend to say he had seen my photo
on a sex website. Somebody had set me up and was purporting to be me.

"When I began to search around, I found other sex websites with my
profile on them. The photos had been taken off my Facebook page and
also from a business networking site.

"It also had my age, height and they had guessed my weight. My wife
and I can just about laugh at it now but it was very embarrassing and
shocking. I'm not gay, I'm married with a two-year-old daughter and it
was very fortunate that my wife was understanding."

Mr Bower's solicitors contacted the websites and demanded the
information be removed. He added: "It's possible I did put myself at
risk by being on Facebook but I couldn't believe how easy it was to
steal photos from websites, with just a click of a mouse.

"It's breathtaking and very annoying that you can do this anonymously
without being traced."

Mr Bower's solicitor Hazel Randall said the case did not amount to
identity theft because the details were used to cause embarrassment
rather than commit fraud.

But she warned that such incidents were becoming more common - and
that it was difficult to track down the culprit.

Hazel, an associate at DLA Piper who specialises in law surrounding
technology, said: "If someone stole Mr Bower's details to open a fake
bank account then that would be a criminal matter but if it's just to
embarrass him it's a civil matter.

"In the first instance, you should contact the website and ask them to
remove the information.

"They are obliged under European law to do this promptly or they could
face libel action.

"The problem is, the information could have been on the website for
months without you knowing about it.

"Most of these websites don't require proper contact details so
there's no way of finding out who did it."

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Sex-website-anguish.4680396.jp

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WM
www.critest.com

Okay, so either Mr Bower is shockingly stupid where it comes to online
privacy, security and how the internet works....

Or....And I personally think this is 100% more likely....Mr Bower is in fact
a closet homosexual who was looking for a bit of man on man *** action
outside his hollow empty lie of a marriage.
Somebody who knows him spotted his personal ad and contacted him...
So, terrified that his reputation was about to become publically destroyed,
he made up this whole *** and bull story, and claimed somebody else was
doing it to get at him.


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