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Canada Dashboard Digest | Court expands privacy tort to revenge porn Related reading: UK DPDI Bill advances to House of Lords committee stage

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In what is being described as an expansion of the privacy tort, according to Legal Feeds, Ontario Superior Court Justice David Stinson has found in favor of Jane Doe in a case involving the posting of a private sex video. Doe sued after her then 18-year-old ex-boyfriend posted a video online after being expressly asked not to do so. It was online for three weeks before she was able to get it taken down. Stinson set the damages at $100,000, plus pre-judgment interest of $5,500, according to the report. When cost of the action is added, the full award is just over $141,000. Stinson was restricted to a $100,000 limit, as the action was under the Simplified Procedure, but he set the award similarly to how he would set an award in the case of physical sexual battery, noting that this case might even be worse, as “not only was the plaintiff’s personal and sexual integrity violated through the posting of the video, that violation is ongoing, because the video may well have been copied and stored and is therefore quite possibly still being viewed."
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