Evaluating New York’s “Revenge Porn” Law: A Missed Opportunity to Protect Sexual Privacy
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
3-19-2019
Publisher
Harvard Law School
Language
en-US
Abstract
Six years after lawmakers first considered the issue of nonconsensual pornography, New York has criminalized the practice. We wholeheartedly support the effort in our role as legal scholars and as advocates for the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI). One of us (Franks) drafted the first model statute criminalizing “revenge porn” and worked on New York’s original effort to address the abuse in 2013. Together, in 2014, we wrote the first law review article calling for the criminalization of “revenge porn.” But our enthusiasm for New York’s long overdue step in joining 42 other states and D.C. in prohibiting nonconsensual pornography is tempered by our view that the statute falls short in failing to conceive the problem as involving sexual privacy.
Recommended Citation
Danielle K. Citron & Mary Anne Franks,
Evaluating New York’s “Revenge Porn” Law: A Missed Opportunity to Protect Sexual Privacy
,
in
Harvard Law Review Blog
(2019).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/31
Publisher URL
https://blog.harvardlawreview.org/evaluating-new-yorks-revenge-porn-law-a-missed-opportunity-to-protect-sexual-privacy/
