We are thrilled to announce that the Digital Trust Foundation has awarded Without My Consent a grant to support three distinct projects : (1) to fully build out the 50-State Project ; (2) to create a resource mapping the existing...
This morning, Microsoft unveiled the launch of its new portal, a reporting web page that allows victims of revenge pornography to remove links to photos and videos from search results in Bing and remove access to the content itself when...
Google announced today that it will allow people to remove revenge porn from its search results. This is great news and a welcome change in policy. As a result of these changes, the entire landscape of nonconsensual distribution of intimate...
"Today, Twitter announced policy changes that will put significant and practical controls in place to help victims of online harassment on the Twitter platform. The new policy allows victims of so-called ‘revenge porn’ (the nonconsensual distribution of intimate images) to...
Today we are proud to release our Preliminary Report: Without My Consent’s Survey of Online Stalking, Harassment and Violations of Privacy . Two years ago , after attending SXSW, we were struck by how little data we could find that...
Ever since the South By Southwest Interactive conference in 2012, where Without My Consent debated the pros and cons of anonymity on social websites, we’ve been eager to obtain data to explain what is going on with online harassment.
We are excited to announce that we'll be hosting our first event and fundraiser in San Francisco on July 18th from 6-9 pm at the 111 Minna Gallery . The event is sponsored by Reputation.com and will include a dynamic panel moderated by SF Chronicle tech journalist James Temple . The panel will focus on the nature of online harassment from the perspectives of victims, businesses, and the public, and offer strategies for confronting this new class of harm.
At the South By Southwest Interactive conference last weekend, I debated Cindy Cohn , legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on the question of whether social websites should allow for anonymous users. Declan McCullagh of CNET moderated, Cindy argued...
A new trend in online reputational harm is to post sexually explicit pictures of an ex on a revenge porn website along with a screen shot of her Facebook profile which has all of the employer/home town/high school-type information that...