Intimate photographs should be deleted at the end of a relationship if one of the partners calls for it, a court in Germany has ruled. The ruling by the Koblenz higher regional court has resonated throughout a digital world grappling with the balance between freedom of expression and privacy . It was welcomed by experts who said it would empower victims of “revenge porn” to be more proactive when seeking the deletion of compromising images. In the case concerned, a man from the Lahn-Dill region in Hesse had taken several erotic photographs of his female partner, to which she […]

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