Abstract
Imagine you wake up one morning to notifications from your ex-partner, threatening to post private images of you online. Panicked, you Google your name and are inundated with explicit images of yourself posted to various websites dedicated to “revenge porn.” You reach out to these websites, desperate for removal, but you are met with only automatically generated replies and no assistance from these platforms. At work, you feel the heavy weight of colleagues’ stares. Eventually, calls from clients start to come in, confirming your fears that many are sharing and viewing these images. At the click of a button, your private life has become public, and there is little the law can do to help. This was the reality for Stephanie Corrao, whose ex-boyfriend posted intimate images of her, creating hundreds of websites to “get back at her” for their breakup. Corrao explained how detrimental the effects were on her mental health and professional identity: “It destroyed my whole life.”
Recommended Citation
Camryn Kesselring,
Taking It Down or Not Far Enough? Evaluating the TAKE IT DOWN Act and the Future of Online Privacy,
91 Mo. L. Rev.
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Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/mlr/vol91/iss3/16