Is it legal for a stranger to take a photo from my account and post it to a facebook page without my permission? People are being mean now..

As I am extrememly "Anti-facebook"... All I can say is whatever you dont want the whole world to see and have access to, dont put it on a website where they can get it. Im sorry this happened to you, but it kinda is your own fault putting your stuff publicly accessable for the whole world to see and do what they want with. Im partial to E-mailing a photo attachment or texting a picture to my friends/family, that way I know they are the only ones getting it.

It's a legal grey area here, because if the person posting your image is in it or have friends in it, they aren't doing anything illegal. And to make things worse, if the person is not earning money off the image or have manipulated it in any way, then it can fall into the category of harmless reposting. On the other hand, since you've requested it be deleted the person is misrepresenting you and since you've got the right to where your face is used, it could be seen as a breach of moral rights. But the problem here isn't what the law says, but what i fails to define, as laws pertaining to online matters is woefully behind and overly simplistic. So while there are laws you could evoke to help you out, they're all laws from the 50's-60's that prevents a company from secretly photographing you and use it for commercials/adds/entertainment. And since you've already accepted Facebook's Terms of Service, in which you've agreed to grant them the right to any non-copyrighted images, texts, videos, music, performances and art that you've uploaded/shared/reposted, which in combination with there being no laws protecting you from being exploited by a digital contract means that Facebook actually own the given image you're worried about. Ultimately, Facebook owns that image and as the legal owners you're technically at their mercy. You could still sue the person using your image, but the case would be weak and i don't think it would be very profitable. So hope Facebook will handle it, because you're powerless to do much of anything. But let this be a lesson in how to deal with the online realm. Never upload anything you don't want others to get their hands on and always make sure sites (any site, not just Facebook) wont screw you over with fancy Terms of Service.

Lolol. People only bully you if they have a valid reason. If you post a picture of yourself on a social networking site, it's completely open source. And there are pedophiles everywhere, that's a shit excuse. I won't call you a retard but I can't stop my brain from thinking you're one.

You can copyright your photos on line for 35.00 with the gov't. Otherwise, you have no legal recourse unless you are being libeled by the person using them in which case you can sue them in civil court.

THIS HAPPENED TO ME ONCE! Except people edited me sayin rude stuff. People are just idiots

You can sue the person. I would suggest you do it.

It's a violation of facebook's terms of service, and (very likely) your copyright. https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms Getting facebook to remove it may be a challenge, and compelling the user to remove it with force of law will probably be expensive, time consuming, and ultimately futile. You should never ever post a picture on the internet that you don't want everyone who will ever live until the end of time seeing. I've a crawler running 24/7, and there is a chance that your picture is on my computer right now. I promise you it was on the computers of hundreds or thousands of people who don't know within days of your posting it.

Putting it up you give up your legal rights to it, which means anyone can do with it as they please. Get a bunch of people to report it

And people ask me A) why I don't have a FaceBook account, and B) why I never post pictures of myself anywhere on the internet. ~