Earlier today (24 April), Justice Minister Alex Davies-Jones shouted out GLAMOUR UK’s Stop Image-Based Abuse campaign in parliament.
Speaking at the committee reading of the Crime and Policing Bill, the Secretary of State for Violence Against Women and Girls at the Ministry of Justice highlighted the activism of campaigners, including former GLAMOUR Woman of the Year Georgia Harrison, Baroness Charlotte Owen, and GLAMOUR’s official campaign partners, the End Violence Against Women and Girls Coalition, Not Your Porn, Jodie Campaigns, and Professor Clare McGlynn. Yep, we’re in good company.
The Labour government has committed to criminalising the creation of non-consensual deepfake ‘porn’, as well as creating stronger measures against predators who take intimate images without consent. While it is already a crime to share (or threaten to share) an intimate image without consent, it is only an offence to take an image without consent in certain circumstances, such as upskirting.
Under the government’s plans, anyone who takes an intimate image without consent or installs ‘spyware’ equipment so that they, or someone else, might take intimate images, will face two years in prison.
Speaking in parliament, the Minister said, “I would like to personally pay tribute to Georgia Harrison, Jess Davies, Professor Clare McGlynn, Jodie Campaigns, GLAMOUR Magazine, and Baroness Owen, for all of their work in ensuring the spotlight is kept on this behaviour and the crime that must be addressed, which has helped us better understand the true scale of the impact of this offending.”
Ministry of Justice
She also shared the following exclusive quote with GLAMOUR:
“When I spoke to GLAMOUR at the end of last year about making social media companies do more to stop the illegal sharing of intimate images, I promised we were working hard to deliver even more in this space.