Justice Chambers

REVENGE PORN: IS IT CRIMINAL OR NOT?                                           source “… private sexual images or films showing a particular person that are put on the internet by a former partner of that person, as an attempt to punish or harm them.” The incessant re-occurrence of revenge porn in this age of social media calls for more awareness as to the rights of the victims and the consequences of such actions to the offenders. One of the many important roles of Law in a society is protecting and ensuring the rights of people in the given society. Likewise, to regulate the behavior of members of the society. As such, Section 37 of the 1999 constitution guarantees one of such rights, which is the right to privacy, providing that, “the privacy of citizens, their homes, correspondence, telephone conversations and telegraphic communications is hereby guaranteed.” The mora...