Live streaming crime
Live streaming crimes are a 21st century phenomenon in which criminals deliberately commit crimes while live streaming the act on social media. Legal systems lack tools to protect the privacy of the victims of these crimes.[1][2][3][4]
History
In April 2016, Marina Lonina (18) and Raymond Gates (29) were arrested in Ohio on charges that Gates raped an underage friend of Marina's while Lonina live-streamed the crime on Periscope.[5][6] According to the prosecutor, who pointed out that Lonina, who was taken advantage of by a much older man, had gotten "caught up" in her excitement over the number of "likes" she was getting and is shown on screen "laughing and giggling."[5] Joss Wright of the Oxford Internet Institute pointed out that given, "The volume of content being created and uploaded every day... "There is almost no practical way to prevent content like this being uploaded and shared."[6]
By May The New York Times was including the Ohio Periscope rape as one of a series of recent cases in which crimes were live streamed, including one in which a young woman in Égly, France speaks into Periscope about her distress and suicidal thoughts and is apparently encouraged by viewers to kill herself, which she does by throwing herself under a train, and the case of two teenagers who live stream themselves bragging and laughing as they beat up a drunken man in a bar in Bordeaux, France.[7]
Instances
- January 2017:
- 2017 Chicago torture incident, a white man with a mental disability in Chicago, Illinois, was filmed being physically and verbally abused by four African American people (two men and two women). The torture was livestreamed by one of the women on Facebook.
- January 2017 an American woman tapes her toddler to the wall on Facebook Live.[8]
- 21 January 2017: 2017 Uppsala rape Facebook live streaming incident, in Uppsala, Sweden, Afghan refugees live streamed the gang rape of a Swedish woman on Facebook.
- April 2017:
- The shooting of Robert Godwin.
- A Thai man killed his baby daughter before committing suicide.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ "Live-streaming crime How will Facebook Live and Periscope challenge US privacy law?". Science Daily. 3 August 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ↑ D. R. C. Stewart, J. Littau. Up, Periscope: Mobile Streaming Video Technologies, Privacy in Public, and the Right to Record. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2016; 93 (2): 312 DOI: 10.1177/1077699016637106
- ↑ Phippen, J. Weston (6 January 2017). "The Desire to Live-Stream Violence". The Atlantic. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
- ↑ Surette, Raymond --- "Performance Crime and Justice" [2015] CICrimJust 21; (2015) 27(2) Current Issues in Criminal Justice 195
- 1 2 McPhate, Mike (18 April 2016). "Teenager Is Accused of Live-Streaming a Friend’s Rape on Periscope". New York Times. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- 1 2 "Woman accused of live-streaming rape on Periscope". BBC. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ↑ Blaise, Lilia (11 May 2016). "Suicide on Periscope Prompts French Officials to Open Inquiry". New York Times. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- ↑ Yuhas, Alan (19 January 2017). "Ohio mother who taped son to wall on Facebook Live faces charges" – via The Guardian.
- ↑ "Thai man broadcasts baby daughter's murder live on Facebook". 26 April 2017 – via Reuters.