January 11, 2018

Facebook settles after 14-year-old sues over nude image reposting

The alleged extortionist, still facing charges, reposted the image to shame sites multiple times. Why didn't Facebook use hashes to stop it?

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November 06, 2017

Facebook: upload your nudes to stop revenge porn

WHAAAA???? Stop, breathe... it actually makes sense

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May 10, 2017

Military ‘revenge porn’ investigation leads to 21 felony cases

Despite facial recognition and other technology, it's still a gruelling cat-and-mouse game for investigators

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April 05, 2017

News in brief: Facebook tackles ‘revenge porn’; Microsoft beefs up privacy; security pros lax on passwords

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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October 19, 2016

3 things you might not realize are cybercrimes

Did you realize that guessing somebody's password (or, at least, using it to access an account without permission) is a crime?

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September 12, 2016

14-year-old sues Facebook over nude photo posted to “shame” site

The girl's attorney said that Facebook should have made preventing republishing a "red-line" issue

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August 17, 2016

“Hunted” schoolgirls’ nude images and personal info published online

The nonconsensual porn site targets particular high schools and regions. More than 2,000 images have been posted, some filled in with personal information to help identify victims.

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April 27, 2016

Kids as young as 11 are targets of revenge porn

Freedom of Information requests in the UK show that 30% of victims were under the age of 19 last year.

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December 11, 2015

£50K insurance policy offers to cover victims of cyberbullying

The £50K policy would cover things like counseling, lost income, relocation, cleaning up online smears, or forensics to track down abusers.

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