‘Revenge porn’ threats could be made a crime in England and Wales
by Daniel Boffey Observer policy editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#1GWKZ)
Call for tougher law to protect victims following a rapid increase in the number of explicit images being posted online without consent
The threat of circulating "revenge porn" would be criminalised and the evidence threshold lowered to bring England and Wales in line with Scottish law, under changes to be proposed by a former Lib Dem cabinet minister.
The law south of the border has failed to keep pace with the rapid increase of the malicious exploitation of explicit or sexual images without their subject's consent, according to former Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael. He is to argue in the Commons in favour of amendments to criminalise not only the circulation of private sexual photographs and films without consent, but the threat of circulating them.
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