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This New App Protects You From Revenge Porn

Revenge porn disproportionately affects lesbians and bisexual women – 15% of us have been threatened with it, and 7% of us have actually had revenge porn posted online.

Rumuki is changing all of that.

This revolutionary app is making it nearly impossible for people to share or post revenge porn.

The app encrypts videos right after you record them, so even if someone gets their greedy hands on the video file, they won’t be able to open it.

But Rumuki goes deeper than that.

  1. In order to record a video, both sexual partners have to give permission through the app.
  2. In order to be played, the video needs a randomly generated key, which is hidden on each partner’s phone behind two passwords – the one on the person’s phone and the one on the app.
  3. If either people wants to delete the video, all they have to do is delete the key – now the other person won’t be able to access the video either.
  4. The key changes every week.

Rumuki doesn’t store the videos; it’s an encryption tool, not a hosting site, which means that the only place the videos exist is on the participants’ phones. Rumuki also doesn’t track information about its users. In fact, you can use the app anonymously.

Soon the app will even let people know the other person has taken a screenshot of the video, a technique employed by Snapchat in order to keep prying eyes from capturing images that are only meant to exist for a moment.

Of course, this system isn’t perfect. Someone could still use a second phone to manually record the video from the first phone. Still, Rumuki is an incredible step in the right direction. And it’s an infinitely better solution than the one people usually offer: “If you don’t want your nudes to leak, don’t take nudes.”

The app has already been downloaded more than 6,000 times since its recent launch. To get it for yourself, visit the official website.

Lesbian Sentenced Under UK’s Revenge Porn Law For Posting Pics of Ex GF

Paige Mitchell posted four sexually explicit images of her ex-girlfriend on her Facebook page after an argument.

As a result she has been handed down a six-week suspended jail sentence at Stevenage Magistrates’ Court, and also given a two-week sentence for common assault, to run concurrently.

Both sentences were suspended for 18 months.

In sentencing, the chairman of the bench Bette Hindmarsh said:

Posting the photos on the internet was a highly vindictive invasion of privacy. It was done with the intention of humiliating and hurting your victim.”

Mitchell pleaded guilty to one count of assault by beating and one count of disclosing private sexual photographs with intent to cause distress.

The photos were sent by the victim to Mitchell during their relationship. They were posted online before Mitchell’s mother told her it is illegal to post them online, at which point she deleted them.

In a statement, Joanna Coleman for the Crown Prosecution Service said:

These vengeful crimes are predominantly thought of as being carried out by men. This sentencing will highlight that anyone can be guilty of this offence and regardless of the defendant’s gender, once reported, it will be taken seriously.

Crimes where an intimate image of an individual is shared without their permission in such a public forum is invasive, humiliating and distressing for the victim and leaves them feeling violated.

It can have a huge impact on the victim and I am pleased that more people are having the confidence to come forward and report these crimes.”

A ‘revenge porn’ amendment to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill received Royal Assent this year and became law, punishing perpetrators with up to two years in prison.

TV host Anna Richardson last month leaked her own naked pictures to a revenge porn website, as part of a social experiment.

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Out Journalist Anna Richardson Leaks Naked Photos of Herself Online For Revenge Porn Experiment

Journalist and investigator Anna Richardson – who is currently dating Sue Perkins of the BBC’s Great British Bake Off –has leaked her own sexy selfie as part of a TV experiment.

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Revenge porn has arisen with the ease of people being able to send explicit consensual pictures to each other, which are then uploaded to the internet for public consumption as a form of payback after a break-up.

Talking to the Evening Standard, she explained she wanted to explore the issue of angry exes uploading pictures to the internet without consent, which is now a crime in the UK.

It was a move that she didn’t take lightly.

The women who have been ‘revenge porned’ have been revenge porned without their consent, and they have no control over those images, albeit that it’s their body.

In this situation, I’m taking the pictures, I’m deciding what to do, I’m uploading them, I have control over it. Even though those pictures will be there forever, I think now having met women who have been revenge porned, I feel much stronger about the fact that this is something I should be doing properly.”

The pictures received hundreds of thousands of hits and hateful comments – however, later in the experiment they promptly disappeared, suggesting that the website discovered her photos were not all they appeared to be, but were still allegedly being shared privately by users.

I’ve been absolutely taken aback at the level of depravity that’s involved, the betrayal that’s involved, and also the danger that’s involved. It’s really, really, taken my breath away. Revenge porn is undoubtedly utterly heinous and dangerous, and everybody should be aware of the risks.”

Emily Jones of Channel 4 added:

Five years ago hardly anyone had even heard of revenge porn. In the past year it has made international news, and changed UK law. It has also spiralled in popularity and has the potential to effect anyone who has ever taken an intimate photograph. This programme will serve as a warning, but will also take an intelligent look at how the Internet has changed the way we control our own image.”