August 2014, a collection of almost 500 private pictures of various celebrities, mostly women, and with many containing nudity, were posted on the imageboard 4chan. Here in Africa with tons on nude pictures circulating online, Ugandan musician Desire Luzinda has easily been the most miserable woman in East Africa the past year. Luzinda fell out with her Nigerian boyfriend, and in a burst of revenge porn fury, he released naked photos of her to the outside world. In Nigeria many of our celebrities have fallen for this lack of privacy either via their accounts or memory cards in their phones.

The hacking of cloud account by hackers has shown that we all are losing our privacy in an ever changing internet connected world. Having selfies or nude pictures stored in your phones today stored in memory card is pastime of most people especially lovers. To some people this is not only advisable but seems safe. It is not always safe as it seems. Most internet enabled devices automatically sync these “very” private pictures to your online account thereby passing through the gateways of the OS of device makers. With applications like drop box for those that use computers to smart phone users like apple, windows mobile and android, people have seen that there is nothing like privacy today. Apple co – founder Steve Woznaik aptly puts it this way “the more we transfer everything on the web, onto the cloud, the less we are going to have control over it.

The issue of reliability and security of cloud account is the major concern any user should contend with, while you are sure that you have access to data on the moves as today requires another thing is to be sure nobody get their hand of your data. This played itself out in the hacking of apple cloud accounts of celebrities showing their nudes from Chris Brown, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Gabrielle Union to Kim Kardashian. When private pictures are public can be traumatic that Mary. E Einstead said this after her nude picture became public.“To those of you looking at photos I took with my husband years ago in privacy of our home, hope you feel great about yourselves”.
Let us face it, no security measure is 100% foolproof but users can use proactive steps like having a password that is complicated but can be remembered easily. For apple users the best bet is to disable Photo Stream, Turn off iCloud Camera Roll backups, Delete iMessages and text messages regularly. As for Android, you'll need to go through your apps one-by-one and check any auto-backup settings you can find. Never allow unauthorized access to your device. If disposing your device ensures that your private data has been erased. With these simple measures your sexual fantasy and nudity will be private.