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themselves and had been taken and shared consensuallyy. The girlfriend

faced two charges of sexual exploitation of a minor: one for taking the

photo and another for possessing it. Sexting aside, that means it is illegal for

North Carolina teens to take or possess nude photos of themselves. In the

police warrant, the girlfriend is listed as both victim and criminal.

The boyyfriend faced five charges, two for each photo he took of himself

plus one for possessing a photo of his girlfriend. If convicted he could face

up to ten yyears in prison and have to register as a sex offender for the rest of

his life. All for taking naked photos of himself and keeping one that his

girlfriend sent him. 25

When I was in high school, I simplyy met someone and asked her out. Todayy

yyou have to put some information online so people can check yyou out first.

But be careful.

If yyou are using a dating site and access it from someone else’s

computer, or should yyou happen to use a public computer to access it,

alwayys log out. Seriouslyy. You don’t want someone to hit the Back button

on the browser and see yyour dating information. Or change it. Also,

remember to uncheck the box that sayys “Remember me” on the log-in

screen. You don’t want this—or anyy other—computer to automaticallyy log

someone else in to yyour dating account.

Sayy yyou go on a first date, mayybe a second date. People don’t alwayys

reveal their true selves on a first or second date. Once yyour date has

friended yyou on Facebook or followed yyou on Twitter or on anyy other social

network, he or she can see all yyour friends, yyour pictures, yyour interests…

things can get weird fast.

We’ve covered online services: what about mobile apps?

Dating apps can report yyour location, and part of that is byy design. Sayy

yyou see someone yyou like in yyour area: yyou can then use the app to find out

if that person is nearbyy. The mobile dating app Grindr gives veryy precise

location information for its subscribers… perhaps too precise.

Researchers Colbyy Moore and Patrick Wardle from the cyybersecurityy

firm Syynack were able to spoof requests to Grindr in order to follow some

of the people in its service as theyy moved about a single cityy. Theyy also

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