A judge has granted court protection to a woman whose ex-partner is threatening to post intimate videos and photos of her on Facebook.

Hugely popular platforms for teenagers and pre-teens, such as Snapchat and TikTok, need to be included along with the major social media giants in State efforts to address online harms, a youth organisation has said.

Victims of online harassment are left without justice, while perpetrators go unpunished, due to the absence of effective laws, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties has warned.

New laws designed to tackle revenge pornography and upskirting are welcome but the government needs to include proper sanctions in any measures, domestic abuse charities have warned.

Labour party leader Brendan Howlin has said those found guilty of revenge porn should be added to a sex offenders register.

Revenge porn, online stalking, and distributing intimate photos of people without their consent are set to be made crimes punishable by heavy fines and potential jail sentences — three years after the first calls for Government action.

The Government has agreed to back a Labour party bill that would mean tough new penalties for people who distribute revenge porn.

The Government has agreed to create a new offence for the non-consensual distribution of intimate images including what is known as “revenge pornography”.

The Labour Party wants to make sharing an intimate image without consent a criminal offence as part of a bill which aims to broaden the definition of harassment to include cyberstalking and cyberbullying.

Hundreds of teenagers in Denmark are facing the prospect of criminal charges in connection with spreading explicit sexual material of minors.

Lawyers acting for the 14-year-old girl at the centre of landmark legal action against Facebook over revenge porn have criticised the police handling of the case.

It was a Wednesday when I saw it. Wednesday afternoon, to be precise, broad daylight, so I really wasn’t expecting it. 

Facebook has faced thousands of potential cases of revenge porn and "sextortion" on the social network, an investigation based on leaked files has claimed.

Facebook is to use photo-matching technology as part of new tools to prevent the spread of revenge porn on its platforms, the social network has announced.

‘Revenge porn’ will become a criminal offence under proposed laws.

A revenge pornography offender who posted a series of "vile, aggressive" lewd comments on an X-rated website next to pictures of women he knew has been spared jail.

Targetting someone through 'revenge porn' could become an offence under new proposed laws from Labour.

The Government has given the green light for legislation to criminalise revenge porn and to extend the law in relation to stalking and harassment.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has said a Law Reform Commission report on online abuse has highlighted potential gaps in the law.

New criminal offences and a powerful oversight agency are being recommended to combat online abuse, such as cyberbullying and revenge porn.

The Union of Students in Ireland is calling on the Government to change the law to protect victims of “revenge porn”.

A victim of revenge porn says it made her feel like she had lost control of her life.

Rapid take-down orders and new offences are among the recommendations to tackle so-called revenge porn.

Attempts to remove revenge porn from the internet has mistakenly been labelled as censorship of free speech, writes Joyce Fegan

ONE OF the fastest-growing areas of concern in internet litigation is the increasing online proliferation of sexually-explicit material, uploaded by third parties without consent — typically for the purpose of humiliating, harassing or blackmailing a victim.

Revenge porn is not illegal in Ireland despite widespread criminalisation elsewhere, writes Joyce Fegan.

Posting pornographic images of an individual online without their consent is a growing form of abuse for which there is no criminal sanction in Ireland. Joyce Fegan talks to victims and experts.

UCD has said it is not found evidence of a revenge porn campaign on its campus.

Women's Aid is calling for a change in the law to tackle digital abuse of women.

A woman who posted explicit images of her girlfriend “to hurt and humiliate” her victim after an argument has walked free from court.

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Google is to block “revenge porn” images from showing up in its search results.

Google plans to censor unauthorised nude photos from its influential internet search engine in a policy change aimed at cracking down on the malicious practice known as “revenge porn”.

The Data Protection Act should be changed to make social media platforms legally liable for failing to take down revenge porn images, an expert has said.

People who share sexually explicit images without consent could be jailed for up to two years in the UK from today, as new revenge porn laws come into force.

A man has been jailed in the US for 18 years in prison for operating a “revenge porn” website and charging victims to remove the images.