UK to Criminalize Sexually Explicit Deepfakes
The U.K. government will criminalize the creation and sharing of sexually explicit deepfake images, addressing the alarming rise of this form of online abuse, particularly against women and girls. This new offense, part of the Crime and Policing Bill, expands existing child protection laws to include adults and will carry a potential two-year prison sentence. Further legal updates will increase penalties for taking intimate images without consent and installing equipment to facilitate such acts, also punishable by up to two years in prison. These measures aim to provide law enforcement with stronger tools to combat non-consensual intimate image abuse and hold perpetrators accountable.
John Q. Hosedrinker