First of all, I think people should have better sense than to display personal images of other people to large groups, or to anyone. They could get sued, thrown in jail, attacked, the list goes on. One of the best, and probably the simplest solution to Internet privacy problems is for people to have respect for other's personal information. That way, it might not be as dangerous to share these types of things.
A second solution would be for Facebook and other social networking websites to improve their privacy settings. This has been an issue for Facebook ever since they launched their website. Time after time I've seen headlines about Facebook "fixing" their privacy settings because users were complaining about how loose they were. Facebook isn't the only website with this problem, of course. There are plenty of other websites that aren't social networks, but have their fair share security problems anyway.
Obviously, it's not always entirely the websites fault. A third solution would be for users to make themselves more aware of and actually use the privacy settings on these types of websites. Notice I said it's not always the websites fault. The predators in situations like these are always the real menace. However, people could make themselves a lot less vulnerable to these online predators if they would just educate themselves on how to stay safe on the web.
I'm not going to say that people shouldn't post personal content on the Internet. Even though it's the wise thing to not do, people shouldn't have to be afraid to post even the smallest things about themselves online. It's their right to post whatever they want to, personal or otherwise. However, it's also someone else's right to do whatever they want with that information. This is a conflict that can be resolved by improvement of knowledge on both sides of the fence.
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