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Daily Dashboard | Opinion: CA Revenge Porn Law Doesn’t Go Far Enough Related reading: US NTIA releases AI Accountability Policy Report

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On Tuesday, Gov. Jerry Brown continued California’s trailblazing in privacy law by signing into law the country’s second “revenge porn” law (New Jersey was first), “levying possible jail time for people who post naked photos of their exes after bitter breakups.” However, writes Emily Bazelton for Slate, the bill doesn’t go far enough. “It makes it a misdemeanor offense to post revenge porn only if a prosecutor shows that the poster intended to inflict emotional distress, rather than treating the act of posting a sexual photo without consent as an objectively harmful invasion of privacy. And the punishment wouldn’t apply if the subject of the photo took the picture herself, which means it wouldn’t help people whose exes persuaded them to hand over photos as a sign of trust.”
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