Improving the law: The US recently passed the Take It Down Act to tackle the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery online, prompting renewed scrutiny of Malaysia’s own legal protections.— 123rf
WHEN the United States passed the Take It Down Act recently, it was seen as a long overdue move to tackle the rise in “deepfake porn” or artificial intelligence-generated non-consensual pornography.
The law prohibits anyone from knowingly publishing non-consensual intimate content, whether deepfake or not, and as its namesake suggests, the law also requires social media platforms to take down any non-consensual intimate images within 48 hours upon a report or request from users.
