The UK government’s Law Commission will soon begin reviewing the laws around the taking and sharing of “non-consensual intimate images” as part of its efforts to keep pace with technological developments. “The review, which will be launched shortly, will consider a range of disturbing digital trends such as ‘cyber-flashing’ – when people receive unsolicited sexual […]
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The UK government is set to make creating non-consensual deepfake porn, and preparing technology elements to create such content, criminal offences. On January 7, 2025 the British Ministry of Justice announced that a new offence will be created as part of its Crime and Policing Bill, which will make taking intimate images without consent, and […]
The efforts of some major search engines to crack down on nonconsensual deepfake porn have arguably been undermined by a news investigation showing that they can point users to tutorials explaining how to make deepfakes. An investigation by Glamour Magazine showed that Google, Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo search also pointed users of the search engines […]
How should porn, sex and sextech-adjacent AI tools (and the content they can produce) be regulated? Should they be regulated by government and government-commissioned authorities at all? With the recent rise of AI-generated deepfake porn making news around the world, largely due to its nefarious use, these questions are also rising to the fore. Some […]
The US and UK governments are launching a joint online children’s safety working group, with the aims of protecting minors from —and cracking down on— internet platforms that potentially expose children to a raft of online harm. Details about how the joint working group will operate have not been revealed, but the UK government announced […]
A coalition of sex and porn industry figures and advocates has released an open letter to EU regulators, calling for more sex-positive voices to be heard in discussions around AI regulation. The Digital Intimacy Coalition comprises 50 organizations and individuals, including sextech conference organizers, porn production companies, pleasure activists and sex performance education companies. The […]
