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Stanford graduate and tech entrepreneur Tracy Chou created the Block Party app to give social media users more control over filtering out negative comments on their posts. "It's about every victim being able to have the images removed in a timely manner so they can get peace of mind," said Sheila Pott. Sen. Cortese says his bill will be a deterrent for that kind of activity. "Any person who has moved a digital photograph from one phone, for example, to another, it's going to trip or trigger the provisions in this bill," Cortese told ABC7 News. That could be a wake-up call for parents about ph...

Do something that would violate federal extortion law. it's a very close call. there's a good argument to be made in many prosecutors are making it that the conduct could be charged. also there's the separate question though of whether ami has violate the its nonprosecution agreement. this i think is the question that presents them with more of a problem. prosecutors could stop short of charging them but find that they violated that agreement and that would of course, have legal repercussions for them. >> stu, i want you to put all this into perspective for us. we have a battle among powerful ...

That's what makes this not necessarily an extortion slam dunk. they did not ask for a bag of cash from jeff bezos to not publish these photographs. they asked for essentially favorable coverage or refraining from covering in a certain way. now, things of value need not be tangible under extortion law. so it's probably the case this will qualify. and it's not the same slam dunk as it would be if you're demanding gold bars or a bag of money. shares of amazon. that's the traditional view of organization. it doesn't mean to be that literal. >> why would they put this in writing, stu? >> good quest...