Online safety bill will criminalise ‘downblousing’ and ‘deepfake’ porn

Nonconsensual explicit images to be tackled in bill returning to parliament next month

Nonconsensual deepfake" pornography and downblousing" will be made illegal when the online safety bill returns to parliament in December, the government has announced.

Explicit images taken without someone's consent, through hidden cameras or surreptitious photography, will be criminalised, including so-called downblousing pictures. A previous law banning upskirt" voyeurism left a loophole that failed to tackle images that weren't taken with the intent of photographing the victim's genitals or buttocks.