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Revenge porn website permanently barred by FTC

January 29, 2015 creative collection, commission, consent, craigslist, high-profile, investigation, more-consumers, revenge-porn, sharply-higher, street, subject, thursday-craig, while-the-site

By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The owner of a “revenge porn site,” IsAnybodyDown.com, has agreed to not publish any nude pictures without the consent of the subject and to destroy his collection, the Federal Trade Commission said on Thursday. Craig Brittain, who opened his website in 2011 and closed it in 2013 after a blast of publicity, had solicited pictures of women he met on sites such as Craigslist, the FTC said in its complaint.

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California ‘revenge porn’ trial gets under way in San Diego

January 16, 2015 creative deputy, federal, governor, internet, obama, permission, president-obama, revenge-porn, san, sprint-corp, usa

By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – The trial of a California man accused of running a so-called “revenge porn” website, featuring nude pictures of women often posted by jilted ex-lovers, began in San Diego on Friday in a test of state efforts to clamp down on such sites. Kevin Boellart, 28, was arrested in 2013 shortly after Governor Jerry Brown signed a first-in-the-nation law to target “revenge porn,” defined as the posting of private, explicit photos of others on the Internet to humiliate them. Prosecutors have said Boellart’s site, which is no longer operational, had featured over 10,000 sexually explicit photos, and that he charged women up to $350 each to remove them