--- title: Nude Photos: Germany Orders Ex Partners to Delete Them description: When you split with your partner, you have the right to demand that all intimate images be deleted, a German court ruled this week canonical: https://time.com/110079/nude-naked-photos-germany-delete/ author: Michelle Arrouas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-23T08:29:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:57.438Z og:title: Nude Photos: Germany Orders Ex Partners to Delete Them og:description: When you split with your partner, you have the right to demand that all intimate images be deleted, a German court ruled this week og:url: https://time.com/110079/nude-naked-photos-germany-delete/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Nude Photos: Germany Orders Ex Partners to Delete Them twitter:description: When you split with your partner, you have the right to demand that all intimate images be deleted, a German court ruled this week twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # In Germany, You Can No Longer Keep Nude Photos of Your Ex by [Michelle Arrouas](/author/michelle-arrouas/) ## Michelle Arrouas May 23, 2014 8:29 AM CUT by [Michelle Arrouas](/author/michelle-arrouas/) ## Michelle Arrouas May 23, 2014 8:29 AM CUT Ex-partners must delete all intimate or nude photos if one of the partners asks for it, a German court [ruled](http://www.upi.com/Odd%5FNews/2014/05/22/Germany-outlaws-keeping-intimate-pictures-of-your-ex/4211400781324/#ixzz32W0oOLB1 "undefined") Tuesday. The case had been brought by a woman in central Germany who demanded that her partner, a photographer, delete all intimate photos of her after the couple split. During the course of the relationship, the photographer had made several erotic videos and taken many naked pics of the woman with her consent. A higher court in Koblenz decided that she had the right to demand the material be deleted, because her personal rights were more important than his ownership rights to the material, theLocal [reported.](http://www.thelocal.de/20140522/court-forces-ex-lovers-to-delete-sexy-photos "undefined") However, the court rejected the woman’s demand that her ex delete all photos taken of her, as it said that clothed pics had “little, if any capacity” to compromise her privacy. [\[_The Local_\] ](http://www.thelocal.de/20140522/court-forces-ex-lovers-to-delete-sexy-photos "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/110079/nude-naked-photos-germany-delete/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/110079/nude-naked-photos-germany-delete/"},"headline":"In Germany, You Can No Longer Keep Nude Photos of Your Ex","datePublished":"2014-05-23T08:29:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:57.438Z","description":"When you split with your partner, you have the right to demand that all intimate images they have of you be deleted, a German court ruled this week. The court found that one person's right of privacy was more important than another person's ownership rights to intimate photos taken during the relationship","url":"https://time.com/110079/nude-naked-photos-germany-delete/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","europe","revenge porn","Germany","privacy","Rights"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Michelle Arrouas","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/michelle-arrouas/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/110079/nude-naked-photos-germany-delete/","name":"In Germany, You Can No Longer Keep Nude Photos of Your Ex"}}]}] ```