Revenge Porn
| Revenge Porn | |
|---|---|
| Short Title | Revenge Porn is Devoted to Humiliating Women With Shaming Comments Under Their Nude Photos |
| Location | Global |
| Date | August 2019 |
| Solove Harm | Exposure, Disclosure, Interrogation, Increased Accessibility, Identification |
| Information | Physical Characteristics, Identifying, Contact |
| Threat Actors | PinkMeth.com, Cloudfare, People posting revenge porn |
| Individuals | |
| Affected | Women, who's images are posted as revenge porn |
| High Risk Groups | Females, Celebrities |
| Tangible Harms | Anxiety, Ostracism, Loss of Trust, Lost Opportunity |
Revenge porn is very resilient on the dark web. There are many cases of female nude photos being posted online for the purpose of humiliation and harassment.
Description
PinkMeth.com us a site devoted to humiliating women with shaming comments under their nude photos.Exposure Cloudflare was known to serve as a proxy server for the site.
Pink Meth allowed people to submit revenge porn anonymously. Some posts included contact information and links to social media profiles of the victims.Increased AccessibilityDisclosureIdentification The site also had a section where victims were encouraged to write an account of how their images were likely obtained in order to get their pictures removed, and further embarrass themselves in the process. This is an example of Interrogation.
One of the many victims of revenge porn described her experiences to the media, saying when she told a good friend about this ordeal, he said that if he had children, he would not let them near her. Her doctor compared her trauma to bad reviews he had once received on Yelp. A professor called her a publicity whore. She was eventually hospitalized after spending a whole year in bed.
Among other known cases of revenge porn is a British YouTube star who won a substantial sum in a lawsuit, an anonymous law student who obtained a $6.45 million civil judgment against her perpetrator and a movie star who saw her perpetrator receive a 9-month prison sentence and much more unknown ones. An actress and activist Amber Heard said, more than 50 of her personal photos were stolen and released to the public, sometimes in manipulated form and often accompanied by sexually explicit and degrading comments.
Laws and Regulations
Sources
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/opinion/revenge-porn-privacy.html
https://www.vice.com/en us/article/53988z/revenge-porn-returns-to-the-dark-web
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/amber-heard-revenge-porn.html
https://privacyinternational.org/case-study/4113/it-protects-our-development