In late 2014, Elisa D'Amico and David Bateman, associates at the regulation company K&L Gates, released the Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project (CCRLP), a project featuring free legal support to victims of revenge porn. In 2014, with the passage of the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act, Canada criminalized the "non-consensual distribution of intimate pictures" that have been designed underneath a "acceptable expectation of privateness".