With these new measures, we're sending an unequivocal message: creating or sharing these vile images is not only unacceptable but criminal, said Baroness Margaret Beryl Jones, minister for the future digital economy and online safety.
The law never progressed as Sunak called a general election just one month later. Notably, the new measure covers only adults, as it is already illegal to create or share any sexually explicit images of children.
The UK government has also announced its intention to make it a criminal offense if a person takes intimate photos or video without consent, looking at whether it was created without consent and to cause alarm, distress, humiliation or sexual gratification for themselves or another.
The US has attempted to create helpful measures for individuals impacted by deepfakes. In 2024, the Senate passed the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act (DEFIANCE Act), which would allow...
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