Overview

• Intimate photos were captured after an early June private dinner in Bogliasco using a notary’s smartphone.
• Those images were circulated without consent in private WhatsApp groups, prompting the woman featured to lodge a complaint.
• The Genoa prosecutor’s office has opened a formal revenge porn investigation to probe non-consensual distribution of the photographs.
• State police have begun interviewing dinner attendees, including a notary, a doctor, the restaurant owner and the owner’s partner, to reconstruct the events.
• The case is seen as a test of Italy’s enforcement of digital privacy protections and revenge porn statutes in group-based violations.