How Secure Are Your Private Photos?

Posted by Queuebot in Blog & Internet, Media on August 13, 2009 at 2:45 am


The Found Photos project consists of a collection of private photos which file-sharing users have unknowingly made public when installing P2P software.

The result is a pastiche of modern life upon which you can’t feel at least slighty guilty for intruding:

The Found Photos project started in 2004, while searching for mp3’s using a filesharing program.

After downloading a folder of mp3’s, I came across a folder named ‘pictures’ inside of the album folder, and found a handful of digital camera photos. This made me wonder what else was out there, what people are publicly sharing – after a few quick keyword searches I came across thousands of them publicly shared.

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17 comments to "How Secure Are Your Private Photos?"

  1. Larfin Jackarse
    August 13th, 2009 at 2:58 am

    They will live forever on the toobz.

    ps: yeah a bit creepy too. MUST STOP CLICKING.

  2. Lasse
    August 13th, 2009 at 3:41 am

    Interesting.

  3. anonymoussss
    August 13th, 2009 at 3:47 am

    haha i've always wanted to look at random peoples private photos... it's just interesting because it's a slice of someone elses life and there are soo many personalities out there... this should really be made illegal though haha XD

  4. seefish3
    August 13th, 2009 at 4:11 am

    I was almost late for work buried in this....

    Voyeurism at its best !!!

  5. Homer Jay
    August 13th, 2009 at 5:53 am

    Is it safe to say that this is a photographic list of people illegally sharing music.

    Let's hope the RIAA doesn't think so.

  6. ted
    August 13th, 2009 at 6:46 am

    Funny, but I didn't bother going.

  7. endgame47
    August 13th, 2009 at 8:19 am

    It would be interesting to see the correlation between the pictures and the music that they were sharing.

  8. Splint Chesthair
    August 13th, 2009 at 8:31 am

    I've always wanted to find myself in a complete strangers published photos. Like me in the backgroung at some bar where people were taking photos.

  9. theturbolemming
    August 13th, 2009 at 9:31 am

    Probably my favorite think on Neatorama lately. Thanks :)

  10. Invisible
    August 13th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    This is an amazing look into the lives of everyone on the planet. Some very good shots in there. I am stuck on the site.

  11. devious204
    August 13th, 2009 at 11:53 am

    its odd, as wrong as it is that these pics are up online, looking at them is a little overwhelming, makes the saying "every picture tells a story" so much more true

  12. epromos
    August 13th, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    this is cool, but if any of the photos were mine i probably wouldn't think it was.

  13. Vonskippy
    August 13th, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    So it's ok that these morons are STEALING music, but OMG someone is looking at MY photos is a BFD? If only there was some way to stop such a tragedy.

  14. Video Game Dork
    August 13th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

    Yeah, the one thing all these people have in common (besides having photos on their computer and using P2P software), is that all of them were not smart enough to not accidentally share their photos. :P

  15. sc0tty
    August 13th, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    You'll kind of be immortal if your pictures are circulating out there in cyberspace after you pass on.

    "hey, who's this guy with socks and flip flops on picking his nose? This picture looks like it predates the great intergalactic war of 2247."

  16. mindysan
    August 14th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    Did anyone see the Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed picture (and this is not a concert picture either, but them sitting on the couch with her dog - at home, at someone's couch)! And there is one in there of Richard Stallman (RMS) sitting in front of a yert or something... I wonder how those got in there.

    Will the guy pull a picture or a set of pictures if someone ask him to do so, I wonder?

  17. mindysan
    August 14th, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Oops. I meant "or someone's couch"... sorry.


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