An ex-boyfriend who swapped out his WhatsApp profile picture for a naked picture of his ex-girlfriend has been sentenced to 12 weeks in jail. Lucky for him, a proposed quadrupling of that maximum sentence to 2 years is still working its way through Parliament.
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Teacher’s ex accused of hacking email, sending nude pics to students
The ex-lover of a Pasadena teacher has been arrested and bailed, accused of breaking into his school email account and using it to send out “sexually explicit” photos of said teacher to students and fellow staff.
How to kill a troll
A new Pew study confirms what we already know: online harassment is a widespread disease afflicting the internet. Ignoring trolls and hoping they’ll go away is actually quite effective, survey respondents said. Then again, how about fighting back, instead? Change is possible, be it enabled by troll-blocking software, societal shift that sees trolling evolve into a stigma, or, if all else fails, calling their mothers. 
UK considering imprisoning ‘cowardly, venomous trolls’ for up to 2 years
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said that new laws would quadruple the current maximum six-month term and show his determination to “take a stand against a baying cyber-mob”. 
Revenge porn offenders could face 14 years in jail
The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has issued new guidance on the posting of revenge pornography. The suggested new approach would see more serious cases of revenge porn prosecuted under the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
Civil liberties advocates, bookstores, publishers sue to stop anti revenge porn law
Those seeking to outlaw revenge porn are now battling a coalition of free-speech advocates who claim the existing laws were thrown together so shabbily, they could arguably be used to criminalize a host of non-vengeful innocents who handle nude images.
Facebook slapped with $123 million revenge-porn lawsuit
For months, Facebook hosted a revenge-porn page dedicated to humiliating one Texas woman with Photoshopped clips of her face pasted onto porn shots, a US woman from Texas is claiming. Facebook’s report abuse procedure got her nowhere; only a police subpoena got through. Is that Report Abuse button actually hooked up to anything, or is it buzzing in an empty room? 
Tor Project is NOT getting sued for enabling revenge porn site PinkMeth
A Texas revenge-porn victim is suing the operators of revenge-porn site PinkMeth.com and was (until her lawyer figured out just what, exactly, the anonymising service Tor actually is) suing The Tor Project for helping PinkMeth to operate anonymously. 
Revenge porn hits two high profile boyfriends where it hurts
Former NSA analyst and vocal NSA supporter John Schindler had his pink parts exposed by a lover in an extramarital affair, and a state representative’s chief of staff was outed by a porn star ex-girlfriend and subsequently resigned. Revenge porn might typically target women, but these cases clearly show that we’re all vulnerable when it comes to sharing explicit content. 