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"Revenge Porn" Reform: A View From The Front Lines, Mary Anne Franks
"Revenge Porn" Reform: A View From The Front Lines, Mary Anne Franks
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The legal and social landscape of "revenge porn" has changed dramatically in the last few years. Before 2013, only three states criminalized the unauthorized disclosure of sexually explicit images of adults and few people had ever heard the ternm "revenge porn." As of July 2017, thirty-eight states and Washington, D.C. had criminalized the conduct; federal criminal legislation on the issue had been introduced in Congress; Google, Facebook, and Twitter had banned nonconsensual pornography from their platforms; and the term "revenge porn" had been added to the Merriam- Webster Dictionary. I have had the privilege of playing a role in many …
Democratic Surveillance, Mary Anne Franks
Lessons Learned Too Well: Anonymity In A Time Of Surveillance, A. Michael Froomkin
Lessons Learned Too Well: Anonymity In A Time Of Surveillance, A. Michael Froomkin
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It is no longer reasonable to assume that electronic communications can be kept private from governments or private-sector actors. In theory, encryption can protect the content of such communications, and anonymity can protect the communicator's identity. But online anonymity-one of the two most important tools that protect online communicative freedom-is under practical and legal attack all over the world. Choke-point regulation, online identification requirements, and data-retention regulations combine to make anonymity very difficult as a practical matter and, in many countries, illegal. Moreover, key internet intermediaries further stifle anonymity by requiring users to disclose their real names.
This Article traces …