Sharing digitally altered"deepfake" pornographic images should be made a crime, a British government-backed review said on Friday, February 26, after finding victims were being denied justice because the law has not kept up with new, high-tech forms of abuse.
Reforms are also needed to fill in gaps on taking and sharing intimate images with permission, and"sextortion" threats to share them, said the Law Commission, an independent body that recommends reforms to laws in England and Wales. Most victims of image-based abuse and revenge porn are women, who are often targeted by acquaintances or former partners.
It proposed a framework of 4 new offenses to criminalize all cases where an intimate image is taken or shared without consent, and called for victims of such abuses to be given lifetime anonymity.
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