Crime
Toronto woman warns others about photos appearing on image-sharing site Anon-IB
This piece originally appeared in The Globe and Mail and CBC News.
In the past month, Roxanne messaged more than two dozen Ontario women on Facebook to warn them that their photos had surfaced on the image-sharing site Anon-IB.
It's something the Toronto resident has been doing on and off since she learned four years ago that her own photos had cropped up on the site – a place where users gather to share images, many of which are sexually explicit.
"Part of me felt like a little bit of a creep doing this," said Roxanne, who didn't want her full name published out of concern her experience would affect her career in social work. "But if I can track them down this easily, somebody with a worse motive can too."