The petition was launched after a large scale hacking of sexual images, which included images of underage girls being shared online. Over 25,000 people have signed a petition to make revenge porn a criminal offence in Ireland. Revenge porn refers to the revealing of sexually explicit images or videos of a person posted on the […]

5 years ago

The social media giant fights back against revenge porn. Facebook have announced significant new measures to help protect intimate images of people shared by others on social media. The company – whose European headquarters are based in Dublin – has launched a tool that will enable it to stop ‘revenge porn’ from appearing on Facebook, […]

9 years ago

It is about time. Loopholes in Irish legislation have allowed for the publication and sharing of revenge porn to long go unpunished by the Irish legal system. This is about to change. Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald has received approval to draft the Non-Fatal Offences(Amendment) Bill, which will make it a criminal offence to post […]

10 years ago