Governor Brown's pen was busier than normal this week as he signed a slew of legislation passing through the California legislature. One bill in particular, written by Sen. Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont), was introduced to help strengthen the 2014 Revenge Porn bill to help ensure more privacy for victims who are trying to remove material from the internet posted without their consent.
Wieckowski says under the new law, when a victim's pseudonym is now used in court, it must also be used in all pleadings, documents, proceedings and other case records. Telephone numbers, email addresses, and usernames, along with any and all images of the plaintiff, must be redacted.
"Their personal information that they have online, your screenname, your handle, these types of ways to identify who the person is. We want to make sure that from start to finish that they proceed anonymously."
Victims will also be able to get restraining orders and get sensitive material removed from the internet.