Study suggests ‘revenge porn’ law being interpreted too narrowly in court

By Ian Burns ( May 9, 2018, 9:21 AM EDT) -- A new study published in a women’s law journal says Canada’s protections against “revenge pornography,” where a person shares intimate images of a sexual partner without their consent, overemphasizes the victim’s privacy expectations and has resulted in judges conceiving of the crime as primarily a violation of privacy rather than as a crime of sexualized gender-based violence....