Young peer launches Bill to criminalise deepfake porn

ONE of the youngest peers in the Lords will attempt to make her mark by criminalising deepfake porn.

- Steph Spyro

Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge, who entered the upper chamber at 30, wants to introduce a private members' bill to make the non-consensual creation and solicitation of digitally altered sexually explicit images illegal.

Baroness Owen, now 31, said women have "lost their ability to choose who owns sexually explicit images of them".

Abuse

She said: "Anyone can walk into the pub, take a picture of a woman without her consent and then create and own a naked, sexually explicit image of her, or insert that photograph into a pornographic situation. This is abuse." This content is becoming more extreme, the peer warned.