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I question if it is even harassment since there was no contact info beyond the sender in the messages I got with this pic. There was no identifying info, etc. It seemed like someone just sent me a random photo and it was very bizarre.
I think the concern is users feeling compelled to find this women's name and information and then contacting her thinking they are helping, and then multiply that by the dozens, hundreds, or thousands.
Yeah, it's likely this. Mix in a couple malicious actors looking to ruin her life on top of the spam, and it's a PR disaster for Lemmy, just waiting to happen.
A picture of someone's face is identifying info. That's why we put faces on IDs and show pictures of missing people - it literally identifies them.
Reverse searching the images could give you all that info.
I did and came up with just this spam