Support groups and experts in the rise of sexual abuse
are rallying behind amendments to the Harmful Digital
Communications Act.
People have until midnight
tomorrow night (April 23) to comment
on the Harmful Digital Communications Act (Unauthorised
Posting of Intimate Visual Recording) Amendment
Bill.
Labour Party MP Louisa Wall put forward the
amendment to clarify the thresholds for image-based sexual
abuse.
The amendments would make it a criminal offence
to deliberately post images of people exposed, naked or
engaged in an intimate sexual activity without their express
consent.
Express consent would require the person(s)
in the photo or video having full knowledge of where and how