Images of private sexual acts are now going to remain private if the federal Intimate Privacy Protection Act, a bill that was introduced last week, passes. Publicizing “revenge porn” would now carry federal criminal penalties of up to five years.
The IPPA is the first federal bill that criminalizes the disclosure of private sexual acts. The bill aims to protects victims of sexual cyberharassment, colloquially known as “revenge porn.”
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