UK Aims to Ban Non-consensual 'Deepfake Porn'

November 26, 2022 By Jozeph P

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If the bill becomes law, it will be illegal to share deepfake porn without the subject's consent. This would be the first ban on sharing deepfakes in the country. Additionally, the Ministry of Justice aims to ban "downblousing," which it describes as an incident where photos are taken down a woman's top without consent. The UK banned revenge porn in 2015, and the government intends to broaden the scope to make it unlawful for anyone to share any intense image of someone without their consent. Currently, prosecutors must prove that the perpetrator had "intent to cause anguish." According to the Law Commission's recommendations, the government also intends to create two additional serious offences based on "intent to cause humiliation, alarm, or distress and for gaining sexual gratification." As part of the Online Safety Bill, officials planned to make cyberflashing, or sending unwelcome nudes, illegal. deepfake porn

"We must do more to protect women and girls from those who take or manipulate intimate photos in order to harass or humiliate them," said Dominic Raab, deputy prime minister and secretary of state for justice. "Our changes will empower police and prosecutors to brought these cowards to justice and protect women and girls from such heinous abuse." The message of the amended Online Safety Bill has not yet been released by the government. "The government will present the broader package of changes as soon as parliamentary time permits and will announce additional details in coming time," the Ministry of Justice said. The bill has been postponed several times, but it will be brought back to parliament in December. [caption id="attachment_66457" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] deepfake porn

Image - theverge[/caption] It is unclear whether the legislation will be passed by the next general election. Some aspects of the bill have been criticised, including a plan to check a person's age before they would access adult content online. "The bill is a deeply flawed censorship proposal that will jail UK residents for what they say in public," the Electronic Frontier Foundation said this week. "It would also require online service providers to use government-approved software to find for user content linked to terrorism or child abuse. It will undermine our right to privacy and the technologies that secure it, such as end-to-end encryption, in the process."

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UK Aims to Ban Non-consensual 'Deepfake Porn'

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