privacy workplace personal-information
What charges does one risk if they share personal pictures without permission?
<p>This question was inspired by something I read on another Stack Exchange website.</p>
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<p>Basically, Mr. Johnson works at a small company <em>Good Company</em>. His responsibility is to manage and organise the digital files stored on the company's storage devices (be it a server, a NAS, or anything).</p>
<p>One day, while going through the files, he stumbles on several private pictures in some random folders. The pictures are clearly depicting the boss and their partner (they both work at the company), some of which are very intimate pictures.</p>
<p>If Mr. Johnson decided to &quot;teaches them a lesson&quot; and posted their pictures somewhere online without their consent, they found out that their pictures got leaked, and they deduced that Mr. Johnson is the most likely person to have done it, <strong>what can Mr. Johnson be charged with?</strong></p>

<p><strong>What can Mr. Johnson be charged with?</strong></p>
<p>In <a href="/questions/tagged/england-and-wales" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;england-and-wales&#39;" rel="tag">england-and-wales</a> this would be an offence colloquially referred to as <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenge-porn" rel="nofollow noreferrer">revenge porn</a> contrary to <a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/2/section/33?timeline=false" rel="nofollow noreferrer">s.33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015</a></p>
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<p>(1) It is an offence for a person to disclose a private sexual
photograph or film if the disclosure is made —</p>
<p>(a) without the consent of an individual who appears in the photograph
or film, and</p>
<p>(b) with the intention of causing that individual distress.</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>(9) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable —</p>
<p>(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 2 years or a fine (or both), and</p>
<p>(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12
months or a fine (or both).</p>
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