In the latest response to an ongoing revenge porn scandal, the US Navy has changes its regulations to specifically prohibit the distribution of nude images without consent. The change comes following a report from The Center for Investigative Reporting in March that revealed that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) had begun to examine a secret Facebook group called Marines United that hundreds of Marines are alleged to have used to distribute and solicit naked images of servicewomen.

The Department of the Navy has implemented an interim change by adding a new article that will be included in the next physical edition of the Navy’s regulations. The new article specifically bans the “nonconsensual distribution or broadcasting…

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