Responsabilidade civil e penal pelo dano à honra, à imagem e à intimidade das vítimas de pornografia de vingança

Abstract

This work analyses the importance of repairing damages caused to the honor, image and intimacy of the victims of revenge porn. The unauthorized exposition of pictures and/or videos with sexual content by former partners violates the right to personality, and is a great offense to the victim. The consequences of this act are immensurable, as the quick spread of intimacy material on the internet changes, substantially, the social, family and cultural interactions rights of victims. Since the most of the victims are women, revenge porn can be considered a new form of gender violence. As the practice has not yet been criminalized in the Brazilian legal system, which creates a strong sense of impunity on the victims, they resort to the courts in order to recover their dignity through the civil liability of the accused.