Showing posts with label mementos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mementos. Show all posts

June 25, 2014

Should We Follow Germany’s Lead When it Comes to Revenge Porn?

I saw this article on HuffPo, and aside from the fact that the photo at the top features the cutest girl in the entire world, the article got me thinking. A very, very high level synopsis is this: A guy in Germany had some erotic photos of his ex-girlfriend on his phone and she asked him to delete them but he didn’t want to, so she took him to court and the court ordered that he should have deleted the photos as soon as she asked him to. The main point is that the German court found that the girlfriend's personal rights trumped the ownership rights of the boyfriend.