Easy read consultation 5 on ways to protect women and girls – online harm
This is an easy read version of our consultation about crimes that can happen to women and girls. We want to know what people think about the law in Scotland relating to online harm. This includes crimes that happen through social media, gaming and phone apps.
Open
51 days to respond
Intimate images and deepfakes
Intimate images are pictures or videos of a person in a private place doing something private.
For example:
- someone in a sex act
- someone’s private body parts
- someone in their underwear
A deepfake is an intimate image that has been made or changed using something like a computer or AI.
AI is short for Artificial Intelligence.
It is technology that lets computers think or act more like a human to do things like solve problems.
It is against the law to share intimate images if the person in the image does not agree.
It is also against the law to threaten to share these images.
This is also true for deepfakes.
But new technology means it is quick and easy to make deepfakes.
We want to make sure that our laws can deal with this.
In England and Wales, there are new laws about deepfake images to keep up with the new technology.
In Scotland we have laws for when deepfakes are shared.
But we also want to make new laws like England and Wales have.
These new laws will protect people better against deepfakes being made.
We want new laws to make it:
- illegal to make a deepfake image
- illegal to ask someone to make you a deepfake image
1. Do you agree with our plan to make new deepfake laws?