Labour to crack down on deepfakes and sharing of illicit intimate images

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Those who take intimate images of other people without their consent, or who install equipment to take these pictures, could meanwhile face up to two years behind bars under new offences. While we welcome this announcement, we are yet to see a timeline for the offence or any details about the new law, which will be crucial to how effective it is Rebecca Hitchen, End Violence Against Women Coalition Deepfakes are images generated or edited using artificial intelligence featuring real people. Plans to outlaw the taking of intimate images without consent will meanwhile streamline existing laws, which have been described as a “patchwork” by the Law Commission. “We await confirmation that any new law criminalising the creation of sexually explicit deepfakes will be based on consent rather than the perpetrator’s intent, cover solicitation of image creation, and be listed as a priority offence in the Online Safety Act.”