Nude Pictures Leakage; a violation of Rights to Privacy

The trend of broadcasting nude pictures of Friends or Lovers has become an issue worth deliberating on. It is wicked and unlawful for somebody to take undue advantage of privileged information or material. This can equally be actionable in the court of law,meaning that the offended party can go to court and enforce his/her right to privacy under CAP IV of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria(as amended).

Though incidences like these could be interpreted as Contributory Negligence. In other words the blame can be attributed to the victim. This usually happens where the victim innocently or intentionally sends his or her nude pictures to a lover or trusted friend. In this instance,the victim's right to commence a legal action is limited. The import of this is that if one does not send his or her nude pictures to another person there is no way that nude picture can be broadcast to the general public. So this trend can stop by people being mindful of how they allow others access their private pictures.   

However,the act of taking nude pictures of someone when the person is completely unaware and broadcasting same is both illegal and criminal and can incur serious Litigation against the offending party as it is both a Constitutional wrong and a Tortious liability offence . 

People who engage in this form of absurdity are perverted ,wicked and unreasonable. It is the height of immorality for people to publicize such private pictures which are bad for public consumption. With the easy accessibility of and traffic on social media by all including children such pictures can only amount to DANGER.

The Government should legislate further on this very disturbing development with the aim of criminalizing it as this is the only way it can be totally eradicated.