Florida Today reports that the proposed bill would prohibit the "knowing use of a computer or other device to transmit or post any photograph or video of an individual which depicts nudity and contains specified information relating to the depicted individual without first obtaining the depicted person’s written consent."

This means that if an ex wanted to share naked pictures of you in Florida, he'd have to have a signed note from you saying he can do so before putting them on the web. If he didn't get that note and posted the pics anyway, he could get up to five years in prison.

“I’m not trying to address the nude picture issue,” Representative Tom Goodsen, who's working to get the bill on the floor, told Florida Today. “I’m trying to address that if you’re doing this to hurt a person, if you’re doing this for malice, that’s where you’re breaking the law."

A law like this could provide much-needed recourse for victims of revenge porn, many of whom have difficulty finding lawyers willing to take on their cases. However, the bill's language may be subject to change as it goes through the legislature, as it could be deemed too overly broad.

New Jersey and Florida aren't the only states where revenge porn is under siege. Several women in Texas have mounted a class-action suit against a Texas-based revenge porn site and its hosting company GoDaddy for publishing their photos without their consent.

“I think 99 percent of victims get told no [by lawyers] so they give up,” Hollie Toups, one of the members of the class action suit, told Betabeat back in January. “I apparently was born with a hardheaded trait that came in handy for once, and I refused to accept the fact that there was nothing that could be done.”

(Photo: Mike Luckovich/Frugal Cafe)

Do you enjoy rolling the window down while driving to catch the breeze in your hair? Hooking your iPhone up to the car stereo so you can enjoy the complex musical stylings of 2 Chainz? What about prioritizing sending a text message over other people's safety?

If so, you're in luck: the "designated texter" campaign, launched in Florida, could help you send your undoubtedly very important text and not accidentally kill anybody in a car accident. It's a win/win!

The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority has launched an initiative that aims to keep kids from texting while driving. But instead of training them to take a break from their phones for seriously 10 minutes that's how far away the mall is c'mon, or just flat out banning texting while driving altogether, the authority has announced the "designated texter" campaign, which encourages the person in the passenger's seat to field and respond to any texts that flash on the driver's screen.

Of course, if you don't want your passenger seeing all your sexts, this is not the campaign for you.

Florida is one of only a few states that still hasn't banned texting while driving, so the Expressway Authority is hoping this move could begin to instigate change at a state-wide level. Let's just hope this doesn't turn into another Florida Man situation.

Can you hear me now? (Photo: Naples News)

While waiting for your data to transfer from an old cell phone to a new one, who hasn't experienced that flash of fear that the Verizon employee doing the transfer will sneak a peek at your text messages? (You really should come up with a better code word for weed than "green.") Still, most of us believe that they can't really get into that much trouble while you're standing there watching them...right?

Or not. The Register reports that two Verizon employees in Florida have been arrested for allegedly stealing nude pictures from a female customer's cell phone and disseminating them. When the woman came in to have her data transferred, one of the employees ripped pictures "depict[ing] her breasts and vagina" and put them on the store computer. He also sent them to a fellow coworker's cell phone. Worse, when another customer came into the store for an upgrade, they showed him the nude pictures.

Unfortunately for them, that customer knew the woman in the photos; after talking to her about it, he immediately alerted the police. The two Verizon employees, whose sexual experiences prior to this most likely amounted to screaming sexualized insults at Xbox Live competitors, now face felony charges for stolen property.

The moral of this story? Practice safe sexting: don't let Verizon workers anywhere near your selfies.

Gross. (Photo: flickr.com/Chris Breeze)

Everyone knows that America's youths just love pirating music. However, as in all things, there must be a winner, someone whose devotion goes above and beyond, a town that pulls together to reach number one. And so--drum roll, please!--CNET has a list of the metro areas with the most offenders per capita. Taking home the crown?

Gainesville, Florida, the home of the University of Florida. Surprise, surprise.*

As CNET notes, it doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out who the culprit is here: 

Gainesville, located in north Florida, is home to about 124,000 people. The city is also home to the University of Florida, which has nearly 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Who do you think (wink-wink) is doing most of that downloading?

Not that this is relevant, but it offers this reporter a chance to share her favorite weird fact about Gainesville: As recently as 2007, there was a local dive shop that was also a chapter of the John Birch Society. Florida!

The South fared pretty well in the BitTorrent stakes, generally speaking. Rounding out the list of the top five most pirate-ridden metro areas in America were Albany, Georgia (or, as the locals pronounce it, All Benny); Fairbanks, Alaska, Lexington, Kentucky, and Tallahassee, Florida.

Don't they have iTunes down in the Sunshine State?

 *Disclosure: This author is from a family of University of Georgia bulldogs, was expressly forbidden by her mother from even applying to the University of Florida, and was raised to believe that former Gators' football coach Steve Spurrier is probably the anti-Christ.