Navy, Marines Prohibit Sharing Nude Photos In Wake of a Facebook Scandal (fortune.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: The Navy and Marine Corps issued new regulations that ban members from sharing nude photographs following a scandal involving military personnel sharing intimate pictures of their female colleagues -- some of which were taken without their knowledge -- in a secret Facebook group. The new statute, which was signed Tuesday by Acting Navy Secretary Sean Stackley, went into effect immediately and will be made permanent when the next edition of the Navy's regulations is printed, according to Navy Times. Military courts will handle violations of the new rule. The crackdown comes after a Facebook group was uncovered featuring naked photos of female service members. The group was eventually shut down by Facebook after a request from the Marine Corps. The Center for Investigative Reporting found that some of the photographs posted on the Facebook group may have been taken consensually, but others may not have been.

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as usual, title and summary incorrect

[iggymanz]

sharing of "intimate images" (defined) that were taken without consent is what is prohibited:

2. Article 1168 of reference (a) is added to read as follows:
        a. 1168. Nonconsensual distribution or broadcasting of an image
                (1) The wrongful distribution or broadcasting of an intimate image is
prohibited.
                (2) The distribution or broadcasting is wrongful if the person making
the distribution or broadcast does so without legal justification or excuse,
knows or reasonably should know that the depicted person did not consent to
the disclosure, and the intimate image is distributed or broadcast:
                        (a) With the intent to realize personal gain;
                        (b) With the intent to humiliate, harm, harass, intimidate,
threaten, or coerce the depicted person; or
                        (c) With reckless disregard as to whether the depicted person
would be humiliated, harmed, intimidated, threatened, or coerced.

Re:as usual, title and summary incorrect

[AthanasiusKircher]

Thanks for the text, though your summary doesn't quite say the same thing as the text. You said it prohibits sharing of intimate images "that were taken without consent," but what this text actually bans is sharing of intimate images where "the depicted person did not consent to the disclosure." The word "disclosure" isn't defined, but presumably it would also cover instances where the TAKING of the image was consensual but the DISTRIBUTION was NOT consensual.

Re:as usual, title and summary incorrect

[ShanghaiBill]

sharing of "intimate images" (defined) that were taken without consent is what is prohibited:

Not quite. Not only the "taking", but also the "distribution" must be consensual. So just because your GF lets you photo her boobs, that doesn't give you the right to share the photo with others.

Re:The price of "freedom"

[Anonymous Coward]

50 years ago, all of those photos would have been classified as obscene materials and no one would have voluntarily taken them except between some husbands and wives.

50 years ago is 1967, and I can assure you, there were LOTS of such photos even then. Mostly using Polaroid Instant Film, but some that required developing.

The thing is, now we have a lot more cameras, and no need to even wait for the photo to develop.

The issue also applies to rape as well, outside of clearly forcible rape. Legal fornication acts as static against the signal as far as law enforcement goes. They must now prove purely a state of mind and cannot rely on circumstantial evidence like "normal girls don't ever have one night stands with men they just met."

On the other hand, they also sometimes have interest in actually giving a crap that rapes occurred, in marriage, outside of marriage, and in circumstances they'd just laugh off otherwise.

Re:USMC and USN are separate military services

[Deadstick]

Separate but pretty intertwined. Marines hold some of the same shipboard positions as sailors, and the USMC has no medical corps -- it goes into action with Navy corpsmen.