Sextortion, or sexual extortion, occurs when an online actor threatens to release a victim’s intimate photos or videos for financial gain. Sextortion is a form of extortion and can also be called “blackmailing” or “catfishing.” In sextortion, the blackmailer is...
Navigating Google’s Revenge Porn Portal Revenge Porn is the sharing of intimate images without the subject’s consent. As technology increases accessibility to the Internet, revenge porn has also increased. Google has taken steps to combat this disturbing trend from...
[UPDATED: August 4, 2021. Originally written by David Posteraro.] In 1961, worried that critics would savage his musical, ”Subways Are for Sleeping,” Broadway producer David Merrick turned to the phone book to find men with the same names as the daily newspaper...