The Cyber Civil Rights Initiative welcomes the passage of the SHIELD Act as an amendment to the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2021, providing urgently needed protection against an egregious form of cyber sexual abuse that disproportionately affects women and girls. As the nation’s leading nonprofit organization focused on the issue of nonconsensual pornography, […]

As you may have heard, our longtime friends and partners at Without My Consent (WMC) will formally cease operations at the end of this year.   The WMC team comprises some of the nation’s sharpest legal minds and most determined visionaries. WMC began to tackle the problem of nonconsensual pornography nearly a decade  ago. Since then, […]

Only a federal law can help stop “revenge porn.” (This piece is cross-posted from The New York Times). Are We All Celebrities Now? By Amber Heard Ms. Heard is an actress and activist. Nov. 4, 2019, 6:00 a.m. ET In 2014, hundreds of private, intimate photos of celebrities — most of them women — were […]

The Photos of Katie Hill Had Nothing to Do with Her Conduct (This piece is cross-posted from The Washington Post.) Oct. 30, 2019 By Mary Anne Franks  Mary Anne Franks is a professor of Law at the University of Miami and the author of “The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free […]

For immediate release: CCRI Applauds Illinois Supreme Court Decision Upholding “Revenge Porn” Law Against First Amendment Challenge. In December 2014, Illinois passed the strongest criminal law against nonconsensual pornography in the country. The measure was drafted in collaboration with Cyber Civil Rights Initiative President Mary Anne Franks, who testified on behalf of the bill before […]

CONGRATULATIONS to our Founder Dr. Holly Jacobs, honored as one of L’Oréal Paris’ #WomenofWorth! Holly, we are so proud of and inspired by your work to end nonconsensual pornography (NCP). “Thank you to L’Oréal Paris and the Women of Worth Team at Points of Light for this incredible honor. For so many years, I felt worthless as a victim […]

(This piece is cross-posted from University of Miami School of Law’s Race & Social Justice Law Review.) By Nicole McLemore Last month, the Vermont Supreme Court upheld the state’s revenge porn law against a First Amendment challenge in State v. VanBuren.[1]While the Court declined to classify revenge porn as a new category of speech excluded from First Amendment protection, […]

Four members of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) were featured speakers at the 2017 U.S. Department of Justice Cybercrime Symposium, which was held on September 15 at the University of Maryland, Francis King Carey Law School. CCRI’s former Victim Services Director Annmarie Chiarini delivered the lunchtime keynote address. Danielle Citron, a member of CCRI’s advisory […]