Sharing ‘deepfake’ porn images should be a crime, says British law body
SONIA ELKS SHARING digitally altered "deepfake" pornographic images should be made a crime, a British government-backed review said on Friday after finding victims were being denied justice because the law has not kept up with new, high-tech forms of abuse. Publishing intimate photos or videos without consent and with the intent to cause distress - so-called revenge porn - was criminalised in Britain in 2015, but the review identified gaps in the legislation including the issue of fake images. Such pictures could include editing a headshot of a victim onto a nude or using sophisticated "deepfake" programmes to digitally strip…