Alleged Revenge-Porn Site Creator Agrees to FTC Settlement
Craig Brittain, creator of an alleged “revenge porn” website, isanybodydown.com, is banned from publicly sharing nude videos or photographs of people without obtaining consent, as part of a settlement announced Thursday with the FTC. Brittain also agreed to destroy the…
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images and personal contact information he collected for more than 1,000 individuals while he ran the site. “The illegally collected images and information will be deleted, and this individual can never return to the so-called ‘revenge porn’ business,” FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Director Jessica Rich said. Brittain obtained many of the images by posing as a woman on Craigslist and offering nude photos to women in exchange for nude photos of the women, the agency said. He asked viewers of his site to “anonymously submit nude photos of people,” the FTC complaint said. Photos posted included personal information about the people in the photos such as their full name, town and state, phone number and Facebook profile. Women who discovered their photos and information were posted on the site and contacted Brittain to remove the information were ignored or asked to pay between $200 and $500 for the removal of the images and content, the complaint said. The commission voted unanimously in favor of the proposed consent order. A description of the agreement will be available for comment until March 2.