How to not be 'Cyberflashed' on your iPhone
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“Police are investigating a ‘new’ crime of cyberflashing after a commuter received an indecent image on her phone as she travelled to work,” Sarah Bell reports for BBC News. “The victim received two pictures of an unknown man’s penis on her phone via Apple’s Airdrop sharing function.”
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“Lorraine Crighton-Smith, 34, said she felt ‘violated’ and reported it to the British Transport Police (BTP),” Bell reports. “In other words, to decide that she didn’t want to see a picture of someone’s flashed penis, she had to look at that very picture first.”
“The BTP has investigated the incident, but said because Ms Crighton-Smith did not ‘accept’ the photograph there was no technological evidence for them to work with and recorded it as intelligence,” Bell reports. “Supt Gill Murray said the force had dealt with cases involving Bluetooth but an incident via Airdrop was ‘new to us.’”
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Source: BBC News
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