Revenge porn: o novo crime cibernético à luz do ordenamento jurídico

Abstract

Everyday, the internet’s expansion is bigger and uncontrollable, this fact make a new part of Law is born. This arises from the various legal relationships present in the digital environment. The network, made up of a broad and difficult regulatory environment, make it easy the expansion of cybercrime. The work aims to analyze the crime of non-consensual sharing of intimate images, popularly known as Revenge Porn. This article also includes a brief study of cases related to the subject, as well as the understanding of this new modality as a gender violence. Finally, a survey is made on how the legal system of other countries deal with the issue and how Brazil has been dealing with this crime over the years. Faced with the lack of a specific norm, it becomes clear the need to criminalize pornography of revenge, so that the State can act effectively in the fight against this new cyber crime.