The Business of Non-Consensual Pornography & Revenge Porn

The Social Network Show welcomes Mary Anne Franks to the July 30, 2014 episode.

Mary Anne Franks, an Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of Law and Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) gives us an update on the legal aspects of Revenge Porn, sometimes and more correctly called non-consensual pornography. Hear Mary Anne answer the following questions: Who posts  images or personal information online about another person without their consent and is it always for revenge? Is there ever a connection to human trafficking? How is it that people are in a situation to have these photos taken and is it with or without their consent? What can young girls do to protect themselves from this type of situation? What are the states in the U.S. doing about this in the legal sense? Which States is the CCRI working with?

Check out these website mentioned in this episode: Social Science Research Network and the National Conference of State Legislatures

Mary Anne Franks is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami School of Law. She teaches, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Family Law. Professor Franks is also the Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative which is a nonprofit organization that raises awareness about cyber harassment and advocates for legal and social reform. This work has allowed her to work with legislators to draft laws against "revenge porn".

Before working at the University of Miami Law School, Professor Franks was a Bigelow Fellow and lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School and a lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard University. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and received her D. Phil and M. Phil from Oxford University where she studied on a Rhodes Scholarship. (D. Phil and M. Phil, U. S. equivalent of doctor of philosophy and master of philosophy. Professor Franks earned her degrees in Modern Languages and Literature).