Annie Seifullah, a former Queens principal, was targeted by her ex-boyfriend in a humiliating revenge porn campaign. Her employer suspended her. She recently wrote about her experience for Jezebel. The department’s…
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MyEx.com, a prolific revenge porn website with a business model dependent on the humiliation of victims, was ordered to be shut down. The Federal Trade Commission, state of Nevada, and U.S….
The New York City Council passed legislation that criminalized offenders of non-consensual pornography. The “unlawful disclosure of an intimate image is punishable by up to 1 year in jail or…
Just don’t take naked pictures. It’s your fault for sending them in the first place. I would never be stupid enough to email videos of myself. You asked for it….
Sexual extortion is a terrifying and de-humanizing violation that feeds off victims’ shame. Sextortion is similar to online blackmail scams, except that instead of demanding money, the blackmailer demands the…
I wrote the below article over a year ago. (And eek, can’t find it in the blog archives, but did find it reprinted on a law school’s website.) Although a…
The Hon. Justice Tanya Kennedy is always fierce. Instead of ruling from the bench in NY Supreme, last weekend she was dishing it out at the UN’s 16th Infopoverty World…
As part of the NGO Conference on the Status of Women at the UN, Carrie will speak on behalf of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative on the topic of Eliminating…
The Federal Trade Commission voted 4-0 in favor of approving the final order dated December 28, 2015, against revenge porn site operator Craig Brittain. The proposed settlement was first announced in…
Vice’s Broadly vertical made a mini doc about the torturous fight to end revenge porn and I’m in it! Outstanding work by Callie Beusman, Sebastian Ischer, and Rachel Rapkin. Loved getting to…