Miss Kenya paid Sh1 million over revenge porn

 

Be careful if you’re a married woman who regularly cheats on your hubby. That boy toy or ‘sponsor’ you sleep around with could be secretly filming your lungula sessions and sharing them online.

In fact, several married women whose sex sessions were exposed on mafisichannel have seen their marriages go south.

But in Kenya, victims of revenge porn rarely do anything, because they don’t know the law is on their side, says lawyer Daniel Odhiambo.

“This is a clear human rights issue of breach of the right to privacy under Article 31 (c) of the Constitution. Article 31 (c) of the Constitution provides for the right to informational privacy, which includes privacy of private photographs of a person,” says Odhiambo, citing the December 2016 case in which former Miss Kenya, Roshanara Ibrahim, went to court after her boyfriend leaked her nude pictures online, and was awarded damages.

“The third respondent, Frank Zahiten, will pay to the petitioner damages for violation of her rights to privacy in the sum of Sh1 million,” read the judgement delivered on December 7, 2015, by Judge Edward Muriithi.

According to a 2016 study from security software firm McAfee, sending explicit videos and nude pictures is most common in the 18-24 age group, with 90 per cent saying they’ve received such.

Over 70 per cent of people older than 24 years admit to having received a nude photo over the phone.

Tech giants, Microsoft and Google — which operate two of the biggest online search engines don’t think it’s the victims fault and have taken measures to try and slow the spread of such material. In July 2015, Google unveiled a new reporting system that allows victims to identify their images and request they be rendered unsearchable