New York Post

Fall of Tumblr pervs

Xpose ’em: judge

- By JULIA MARSH

A victim of online “revenge porn” will get her own chance at retributio­n — going after more than 500 Tumblr viewers who got their kicks watching the non-consensual video.

The first-of-its-kind ruling, handed down by a Manhattan judge Wednesday, ordered the social-networking platform to disclose the personal informatio­n of the hundreds of people who have shared the sex video — which featured the victim when she was an underage teenager — so she can sue the users over the privacy breach.

“I’m directing Tumblr to disclose to petitioner all the account-registrati­on informatio­n concerning each individual account that reblogged the images and videos that are at issue here,” said Manhattan Supreme Court Justice David Cohen.

He gave Tumblr five days to comply.

“It’s good news. Now they can’t hide behind a computer anymore,” said the 27year-old woman, who believes an angry ex posted the decade-old video.

Experts say the ruling could have far-reaching privacy implicatio­ns.

“I’ve never seen anything quite like this before,” said Darius Maxwell Fisher, head of reputation-management firm Status Labs. “This could be the first of many issues like this where your anonymity is stripped from you.”

Judge Cohen made the ruling after learning that the footage in this case was filmed when the Bronx woman was just 17.

The tape shows her “engaged in a multitude of sexual acts . . . without her permission and consent,” her lawyer, Daniel Szalkiewic­z, told the judge.

She learned the footage was on Tumblr only when strange men began contacting her through Facebook with offensive sexual questions. Tumblr removed the material only after The Post contacted the $1.1 billion company in March when the paper first reported her story.

“It had a huge emotional toll on me,” she told The Post. “I went through months when I was feeling really depressed.”

Reps for Tumblr did not return messages seeking comment.

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