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nitpicker

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Fri Apr 21, 2017, 07:14 AM Apr 2017

Posting private nude photos is now a crime in the Navy and Marine Corps

https://www.navytimes.com/articles/swapping-nude-photos-is-now-a-crime-in-the-navy-and-marine-corps

Posting private nude photos is now a crime in the Navy and Marine Corps

By: David B. Larter, April 19, 2017

Posting nude pictures of service members without consent is now, for all intents and purposes, a crime in the Navy and Marine Corps — a response to the nude photo-sharing scandal that surfaced when a reporter outed a private Facebook group of Marines and sailors that was used at times to swap nudes. An interim revision to Navy regulations prohibits Navy and Marine Corps personnel from posting intimate photos “if the person making the distribution or broadcast does so without legal justification or excuse,” the regulation reads.

The statute details three conditions that will be considered a violation of Navy regulations, including if images are broadcast or transmitted: “with the intent to realize personal gain; with the intent to humiliate, harm, harass, intimidate, threaten, or coerce the depicted person; or with reckless disregard as to whether the depicted person would be humiliated, harmed, intimidated, threatened, or coerced,” the regs read. The new regs, which were signed off by Acting Navy Secretary Sean Stackley, go into effect immediately. It is characterized as interim until the next edition of Navy regulations is printed.
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Sailors and Marines who run afoul of the new regs could be charged with an Article 92, failure to obey a lawful order, the Navy's chief spokesperson confirmed in a statement.
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The regs now define an “intimate image” as “any visual depiction, including by electronic means, that includes another person who is identifiable from the depiction itself or from information conveyed in connection with the depiction; depicts that person engaging in sexually explicit conduct or depicts the private area of that person; and taken under circumstances in which the person depicted had a reasonable expectation of privacy.”

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Posting private nude photos is now a crime in the Navy and Marine Corps (Original Post) nitpicker Apr 2017 OP
It's a start. My heart goes out to the women in military that were abused by other military :( luvMIdog Apr 2017 #1
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