Media transit management in cyberspace

A computer system, the computer system comprising:

• one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, wherein the computer system is capable of performing a method comprising:
• receiving, from a participating user, one or more images and one or more pre-set configuration criteria regarding management of an image file, the one or more images containing objects and metadata including at least a time stamp and location where the one or more images were captured;
• receiving a request from the participating user to monitor for an attempted sharing of the image file by at least one other user;
• monitoring for the attempted sharing of the image file in response to receiving the request from the participating user;
• determining whether each object in the one or more images matches each object in the image file and whether the time stamp and location of the one or more images match a time stamp and location of the image file;
• and
• in response to determining each object in the one or more images matches each object in the image file and the time stamp and location of the one or more images match the time stamp and location of the image file:
• identifying the at least one other user who is attempting to share the image file;
• and
• correlating the one or more pre-set configuration criteria with the image file.

A computer program product, the computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium, the program instructions executable by a processor capable of performing a method, the method comprising:
• receiving, from a participating user, one or more images and one or more pre-set configuration criteria regarding management of an image file, the one or more images containing objects and metadata including at least a time stamp and location where the one or more images were captured;
• receiving a request from the participating user to monitor for an attempted sharing of the image file by at least one other user;
• monitoring for the attempted sharing of the image file in response to receiving the request from the participating user;
• determining whether each object in the one or more images matches each object in the image file and whether the time stamp and location of the one or more images match a time stamp and location of the image file;
• and
• in response to determining each object in the one or more images matches each object in the image file and the time stamp and location of the one or more images match the time stamp and location of the image file:
• identifying the at least one other user who is attempting to share the image file;
• and
• correlating the one or more pre-set configuration criteria with the image file.