Overshadowed by recent dramatic developments in Canberra has
been a push to introduce legislation to protect people from
so-called 'revenge porn', the distributing of sexually
explicit images of a person without their consent. The name comes
from the trend on the internet for spurned lovers to distribute
private, naked photos of their ex-partners taken while they were
together.
Anneka Frayne, a lawyer with Stacks Law Firm, says the practice
has become widespread with some victims finding their most intimate
photos or videos spread over 'revenge porn' websites,
sometimes even with their names and contact details attached. In
other cases, rather than distribute images via a website the
perpetrator might keep the images and hold the victim to ransom by
threatening to send them to relatives and friends.
