Luas ‘crush’ site goes off the rails

AN Irish website hosting photographs of “hot guys” and “sexy girls” using public transport appeared to be shut down last night, hours after removing pictures of people who did not consent to the images being published.

The decision to pull the photos by the operators of Luascrush.com followed intervention of the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) after it received a phonecall on the matter.

An expert on digital rights and privacy, law lecturer TJ McIntyre, said there was a clear legal distinction between “taking photographs and publishing photographs”.