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The BBC reports on a woman who was sent pictures of a penis via Apple AirDrop.
The victim received two pictures of an unknown man's penis on her phone via Apple's Airdrop sharing function.
Lorraine Crighton-Smith, 34, said she felt "violated" and reported it to the British Transport Police (BTP).
Supt Gill Murray said this particular crime was new to her force and urged people to report any other incidents.
Ms Crighton-Smith, who was travelling on a train in south London, told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme: "I had Airdrop switched on because I had been using it previously to send photos to another iPhone user - and a picture appeared on the screen of a man's penis, which I was quite shocked by.
The article later describes how to make sure that AirDrop is set to only allow pictured from known contacts.
Is this a major privacy issue or is it simply a case of a misconfigured device?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:27PM
The point he was making was that if someone looks in your mail slot and spies on you THAT is a privacy issue, someone dropping something in your mail slot cannot ever be a privacy issue (except a camera I guess) due to the definition of the word. He was not saying there was not an issue, just that it has nothing to do with privacy.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday August 18 2015, @06:42PM
Okay. Noted.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @07:28PM