Slane incident highlights ignorance of online privacy pitfalls

The lack of thought with which photos were taken and shared is a cause for concern, says Claire O’Sullivan.

Hannah Smith took her own life after being bullied online. Her father has called for called for new regulations to govern social media sites.

The speed at which pictures of a teenage girl performing oral sex on a male at the Eminem concert in Slane went viral online has ensured that online behaviour, or lack thereof, remained firmly in the headlines this week.