{"id":281284,"date":"2025-07-22T01:35:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281284\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T01:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T01:35:25","slug":"deepfakes-public-asked-for-views-on-criminalising-false-pornographic-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/281284\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepfakes: Public asked for views on criminalising false pornographic images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Social Democratic and Labour Party assembly member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cz6p390ygnzo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cara Hunter has campaigned for such a change in the law after she was targeted<\/a> in a deepfake video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The East Londonderry MLA&#8217;s face was digitally superimposed on to the face of another person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The video was circulated widely on WhatsApp and social media in the run up to the 2022 Stormont elections but the person responsible was never identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These fake images can ruin lives,&#8221; Hunter said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Victims often have to put up with images being shared widely online and this is an incredibly dehumanising and humiliating experience that can impact jobs, relationships and day-to-day life, leading to mental and other health problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I strongly welcome this public consultation that must lead to serious consequences for anyone involved in the creation and sharing of sexual deepfake images.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hunter stressed the need for victim-centred legislation and urged the public to respond to the consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social Democratic and Labour Party assembly member Cara Hunter has campaigned for such a change in the law&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-281284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114894321929799392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}