I don’t think having a chat with someone whilst naked comprises online nudity. I mean, even whilst clothed one is naked beneath them. It’s not like whatsapp, is some magic undressing application.
If one is discussing technologically mediated nakedness, then two examples that come to mind are “nudification apps” and millimetre wave scanners at airports.
the first example is clearly problematic ethically, I guess we can all use our imagination when we sit delivering a lecture to an audience and imagine them naked – but taking an image – without permission of a third party and passing it through an algorithm that fills in “imaginatively” is clearly abusive.
Being scanned and observed in a managed way by the state – so that your image is visible to authorised people is consensual, and regulated. I guess this is similar to going to the doctor for an intimate examination where you can ask for a chaperone to be present – you are going to be exposed, but there is a witness to confirm or deny any abuse of that.
Other examples of online nudity might be considered consensual voyeurism and exhibitionism. The internet is quite big and if images are appropriately managed it’s difficult to accidentally find them, or accidentally share them. I would counter this with the fact that internet has become quite discoverable. Tools exist to scan every ipv4 address. The push to https creates a ledger with every domain name visible in certificate transparency logs. All links and images become trawled and fed into machine learning archives. Using these machine learning tools, given an image of an individual it becomes easy to discover other images that correlate with the any other.
