MADRID, November 25 (Portaltik/EP) –

great Britain plans to criminalize the use of ‘depfakes’ with new laws that define this crime and punish users of this technology for pornographic purposes and without the consent of the victim.

‘Deepfake’ is a video technique that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create, modify and fake images, which is often used by cybercriminals. commit their fraud in recent years.

The UK government has announced that it plans to ban the sharing of ‘deepfakes’ of an erotic or pornographic nature that are distributed without people’s consent or ignorance that appear in these images.

This measurement is part of Online Security Billthe Government’s planned new online security law to monitor and crack down on harmful content accessible via the Internet.

As reported by this agency on the web page, The UK will soon come up with a package of additional laws to tackle abusive behavior, including mounting hidden camera to photograph or record someone in a non-consensual way.

One of them will focus on the so-called ‘downblouse’, consisting of taking photographs or videos of naked women on their upper bodies. In this way, the Government believes that it will be easier for the National Police and the Attorney General’s Office to do this pursue this case en masse.

From this institution they remember that ‘deepfake’ is a practice that affects a large part of the population. So much so that according to more than 28,000 reports made by Police between April 2015 and December 2021, around one in 14 adults in England and Wales has received threats for sharing intimate images.

so every crime have an appropriate punishment The UK government will be responsible for repealing and replacing current laws and will classify it as a crime of sharing intimate images without the victim’s consent.

On the other hand, it will create two special evils. One of them, for threatening to share the pictures, and the other, for setting up photographic and video cameras and devices out of ignorance of the people.

Similarly, it has been announced that they will admit as a criminal act the exchange of intimate pictures without the consent of one through the technique of ‘deepfake’ and the transformation of real images into fakes through AI.

The UK recalls that this action is based on regulations adopted by the government in recent years which focus on protecting victims and criminalizing acts such as ‘upkirting’, which consists of carrying out photos or videos showing private parts women take pictures or film their bodies under their skirts.

Another crime updated under the new law is so-called ‘revenge pornography’, in which privately-taken multimedia content is used to publish and go viral without the consent of the person appearing in it, even though there has been an agreement between the two parties. for manufacture.

Likewise, these ‘online’ security laws provide for the creation of specific offenses known as ‘cyberflashing’consisting of sending photos without being asked where the genitals of the aggressor appear.