A jury has awarded a woman $1.2 billion in damages after finding she was a victim of revenge porn.

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Jury Rules Woman to Get $1.2B in Revenge Porn Case

A jury has awarded a woman 1.2 billion with a B dollars in damages after finding that she was a victim of revenge porn. A Texas woman sued her ex boyfriend in April of 2022 for spreading intimate photos of her across the internet. A jury in Harris County, Texas ruled against the man on Wednesday. Despite his absence in court. During the trial, the man accessed security cameras in the woman's home and shared them on a pornography website. He also created a website and fake social media profiles to spread explicit photos of her without the woman's consent. Texas law forbids disclosure of intimate visual images without consent from the person depicted. The plaintiff's attorney called the settlement. The jury's plea to raise awareness of this tech fueled national epidemic.