Manitoba considers expanding law on revenge porn and other image sharing

The Manitoba authorities is looking astatine strengthening a instrumentality that protects radical whose intimate photos oregon videos are shared without their consent.

A reappraisal from the Crown instrumentality investigation subdivision of the Justice Department, tabled successful the legislature this week, contains 10 recommendations to alteration the Non-Consensual Distribution of Intimate Images Act. The instrumentality allows victims to writer perpetrators and person enactment successful getting images taken down from the internet.

One proposal is to let lawsuits against perpetrators for threatening to administer images, adjacent if they don’t travel through.

“This amendment is indispensable due to the fact that a menace to administer an intimate representation tin beryllium a power oregon coercion maneuver utilized successful convulsive intimate spouse relationships,” the reappraisal states.

Another proposal is to let lawsuits if images are sent lone to the victim. The existent instrumentality governs organisation to different people.

“Sending the intimate representation to the idiosyncratic depicted successful the representation is simply a maneuver utilized to coerce and control,” the reappraisal said.

Other recommendations see making it easier for victims to get extortion orders, including images of radical that are “nearly nude” alternatively of requiring afloat nudity, and including images successful which the unfortunate is not identifiable.

The NDP authorities acted earlier this twelvemonth connected different proposal successful the report. It passed an amendment successful June to person the instrumentality see images that are generated oregon altered by computer, often called “deep fakes.”

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Justice Minister Matt Wiebe said Thursday the authorities volition consult with ineligible experts and stakeholders specified arsenic the Canadian Centre for Child Protection earlier laying retired its adjacent steps.

“There’s nary question that the nationalist is much alert of this contented and they’re asking america to enactment connected this,” Wiebe said Thursday.

“We’re committed to bringing guardant oregon amending the authorities … to guarantee that we get this close and that we proceed to amusement Manitobans that we’re moving connected this issue.”

The national authorities provides transgression consequences for sharing intimate images without consent nether the Criminal Code. Manitoba and different provinces person laws that connection civilian remedies.