Online Harms: Intimate Images

Lord Paddick Excerpts

Wednesday 28th October 2020 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con)]

The Government absolutely agree that it is important to ensure that the criminal law keeps up with the constant changes in technology and the use of social media in all its forms. That is why the Law Commission’s review of the law relating to taking, making and sharing intimate images specifically includes deepfakes and the creation and dissemination of realistic, manipulative images within their terms of reference.

[Lord Paddick (LD)]

My Lords, last week the lead for the Crown Prosecution Service on rape said:

“Many teenagers believe that sending explicit photos or videos is part of everyday life.”


What are the Government doing to educate children to resist peer pressure to engage in such activity and to warn teenagers that these images can find their way on to pornography websites and, in the case of younger children, into the hands of paedophiles?

[Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con)]

Education is absolutely key to this, which is why there is a new review into how we educate young people in the use of social media now and in the future, as things change. I am sorry that I did not get the second question but I will look in Hansard and write to the noble Lord.