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The EU wants to criminalize AI-generated porn images and deepfakes
The proposed rules will criminalize the non-consensual sharing of intimate images, including deepfakes made by AI tools, which could help deter revenge porn.
Reddit says it's banning more people than ever in big transparency push
Reddit has introduced a transparency center serving as a hub for safety, security and policy information.
Facebook and Instagram will help prevent the spread of teens' intimate photos
Meta is clamping down on sextortion by letting people flag intimate photos.
TikTok and Bumble join anti-revenge-porn initiative
Facebook and Instagram previously joined the StopNCII.org program to prevent the spread of non-consensual intimate images.
UK aims to ban non-consensual deepfake porn in Online Safety Bill
Although the Online Safety Bill would ban unsolicited nudes and non-consensual deepfake porn, critics say other aspects of the proposed legislation threaten privacy and security.
Reddit sued for failing to pull child sexual abuse content
Reddit has been sued for allegedly refusing to pull child sexual abuse material despite repeated attempts.
Virginia updates its revenge porn law to include deepfakes
With AI tools making it increasingly easy to create fake explicit images, the problem of revenge porn is only getting worse. Now, the state of Virginia has expanded its law against harassment through the sharing of sexual images to cover deepfake images and videos.
Victim group says UK's revenge porn laws aren't working
The UK's move to treat revenge porn as a specific crime was supposed to catch perpetrators who'd otherwise slip through the cracks, but that doesn't appear to have worked out in practice. The Revenge Porn helpline has collected police data showing that the number of related charges dropped 23 percent between the periods of 2015-2016 and 2018-2019 despite the number of investigations more than doubling over the same space of time. Just 158 people faced charges, the helpline said. The shortfall is pinned on both shortcomings in the law itself as well as a lack of understanding from police.
Facebook is relying on AI to tackle revenge porn
Facebook is introducing new revenge porn detection tools that use AI to track down intimate images shared without the subject's consent. It claims machine learning can help it to detect near nude images and videos before a user reports them. A human moderator then reviews the flagged content, removing it if it violates Community Standards. Sharing revenge porn will almost certainly result in Facebook banning the account it originated from, said the company, though an appeals process is available in case of incorrect takedowns.
Scarlett Johansson says fighting deepfake porn is 'fruitless'
Scarlett Johansson knows better than most how horrible a place the internet can be. She's been the victim of leaks before where private photos have ended up publicly available. And now she's been targeted by a new kind of harasser, ones that use artificial intelligence to create surprisingly convincing (but fake) pornographic videos of her. One such video has racked up over 1.5 million views, and she's come to the sad conclusion that trying to fight these "deepfake" videos is "fruitless" and a "lost cause."
Microsoft makes it way easier to report revenge porn
Revenge porn is disgusting, destructive and getting to be tragically common, so much so that titans of the web have been cooking up ways to deal with it. Microsoft is the latest to join the fray, as it just joined Google in giving victims a way to shut down illicit stuff they don't want seen. Starting today, people can fill out a form on Microsoft's support site to flag the content in question, confirm that they didn't want whatever it was to be distributed in the first place and provide legal documentation if they've got it.
UK makes 'revenge porn' illegal with punishment of up to two years in jail
Posting "revenge porn" in England and Wales is becoming a criminal offense. It's thanks to an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Courts Bill, which was passed last year by the House of Lords and due to receive Royal Assent later today. Anyone found guilty of distributing explicit images to force victims into sexual activity or to humiliate them will now face up to two years in prison. It's designed to cover photos and videos that are shared without permission both on and offline, including those posted to Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and other social networks.
'Revenge porn' peddler banned from posting images without consent
If your significant other sends you artful nudes, it'd be pretty nasty to share those pics in the event of your separation. It's a feeling that the Federal Trade Commission shares after handing down a judgment on Craig Brittain, the owner of a website that many believe traded in revenge porn. Is Anybody Down was a site catering for user-submitted smut that, perhaps obviously, was believed to be used by jilted lovers trying to get one over on their exes. The site itself shuttered a while ago, but the FTC has now ruled that Brittain cannot publicly share photos of people online without their permission, and destroy any archives that he still has. Failure to comply with this will be met with a $16,000 fine for each and every individual violation.
UK prosecutors say posting revenge porn can lead to 14 years in prison
In a bid to crack down on the sharing of "revenge porn," UK prosecutors have warned that the most severe cases can come with a 14-year spell behind bars. According to new guidance issued by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), explicit images that are sent to force victims into sexual activity or humiliate a former partner can break sex offense laws (and possibly even child protection regulations), allowing prosecutors to seek longer sentences for offenders. In the past, many cases were tried under obscenity laws, which come with softer punishments and also need to meet a "public interest threshold" that gauges the impact of the offense.
German court rules that you can't keep your homemade porn after you break up
If you're with someone and own a smartphone, you've at least considered aping those arty monochrome shots on Tumblr by making some homemade erotica. What happens to those images, however, when you and your significant other part ways? A German amateur photographer has found out after his ex-girlfriend took him to court, which ruled that the subjects of smutty pictures can withdraw their consent if they're naked. The shutterbug was able to keep the clothed pictures, however, as they weren't considered to compromise the reputation of the woman in question. It's certainly a blow to the burgeoning "revenge porn" industry, and will hopefully ensure that private smut remains, you know, private.
