In 2013, California became one of the first states to outlaw revenge porn (also known as cyber exploitation or digital rape) in enacting Penal Code § 647(j)(4). Shortly thereafter, the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative published a study finding that: (i) 93% of victims suffered significant emotional distress as a result of their victimization; (ii) 82%…
In November 2018, Democrat Katie Hill won a Congressional seat representing a northern Los Angeles exurb that had been held by Republicans since 1993. Once in Washington, she was a rising star in the party and one of two freshman Representatives chosen for the Democratic Caucus. On October 18, 2019, RedState, a conservative political blog…
Today the Santa Ana Police Department had the following announcement on the arrest of serial revenge porn suspect Dillon Nguyen (23) of Westminster who distributed “intimate images and videos involving his ex-girlfriends online after they broke-up”. The Internet Law Center represents one of Nguyen’s victims and applauds the Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) and the…
The Washington Post’s Jessica Goldstein featured one of our clients and pending litigation in Inyo County Superior Court in “Revenge porn’ was already commonplace. The pandemic has made things even worse.” Thanks to Jessica for her work on this.
Last year, I was fortunate enough to be invited to join ten other stellar participants that included other attorneys, prosecutors, law enforcement, academics and civil society representatives for a two-day brainstorming session sponsored by the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (working with RTI International and the RAND Corporation) on combating Technologically Facilitated Abuse…
Yesterday, Congresswoman Katie Hill (D-CA) gave her final speech in Congress as she was forced to resign after her estranged husband and political rivals published nude photographs of her and (so far) unsubstantiated allegations that she had violated House rules by having an affair with one or more Congressional staff members.¹ Hill’s resignation and farewell…
For those who work in the field of representing cyber harassment victims, we have all looked to Professor Danielle Citron’s trailblazing work on Cyber Civil Rights and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace and launching the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative and other efforts to combat cyber exploitation (revenge porn). It was with no surprise but much satisfaction that we learned that…
The States of Missouri and Rhode Island have passed revenge porn legislation, bringing the number of states with such laws to forty. The Missouri law was signed by Governor Eric Greitens last week just prior to his stepping down as part of a plea bargain. It is an ironic development since Greitens downfall began earlier…
In January a new word was added to our internet lexicon – “deepfake”. This stemmed from a VICE story about a Reddit user named “deepfakes” using an open source artificial intelligence-based app that allowed users to create fake porn videos by swapping faces of celebrities (or anyone for that matter) onto the adult film actress/actor.…
Darieth Chisolm and 50 Shades of Silence LISTEN VIA THESE CHANNELS LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU . . . Imagine waking up one day to find harassing meme’s, nude pictures and videos of yourself online. Images that you were not aware existed, you did not approve…
Last week, the firm was quoted in a Bustle story, entitled A Fake Porn App Lets People Put Celebrities’ Faces In Videos & Here’s Why It’s So Dangerous. The article discussed the legal implications of a new phenomenon revealed in a recent Motherboard’s article of new applications using artificial intelligence for face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers’…
The Federal Trade Commission and the State of Nevada have filed a lawsuit against the operators of the revenge porn site MyEx.com under both the FTC Act and Nevada’s anti-revenge porn law. This is only the second time the FTC has acted against revenge porn sites. The Complaint is a major statement from the…
As the problem of Cyber Exploitation or Revenge Porn has grown, state laws attempting to address the issue have multiplied. Currently, thirty-eight (38) states and the District of Columbia have some form of law addressing the problem. In 2016, California Congresswoman Jackie Speier introduced the Intimate Privacy Protection Act to create a national ban on revenge…
Webinar: Representing Victims of Cyber Exploitation Tuesday, August 29, 2017, 12 noon – 1 p.m. Pacific Presented by the Technology, Internet and Privacy Interest Group. This program offers 1 hour participatory MCLE credit. REGISTER TODAY Revenge porn is a growing problem on the internet, and 38 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws…
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