In an exclusive interview with Channel 4 News, Baroness Owen explains her newly proposed bill to criminalise “disproportionately sexist” non-consensual deepfake explicit images, after she was controversially appointed to the House of Lords by Boris Johnson in July last year. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00It's disproportionately sexist. There's so many victims being created every single week.
00:06Women are losing the ability to choose who owns a naked image, an explicit video of them.
00:13That choice is being taken away from them.
00:15So summarise what your bill would do.
00:17So my bill seeks to create offences relating to the taking of sexually explicit images,
00:24which basically means that you can't take a sexually explicit picture of someone without their consent.
00:30And then the second part of it is you can't create a deepfake image
00:33or ask someone else to create a deepfake image of you without consent.
00:37You know, big tech could root out these kind of abusive, deepfake, pornographic images and videos now,
00:45if they chose to.
00:47Isn't the brutal truth that they're making handsome profits from the abuse of women and girls,
00:52and they're not going to give that up without a fight.
00:54Big tech does need to take responsibility,
00:57but the first step in this big puzzle needs to be giving victims the power to say,
01:03this behaviour is wrong, it's criminal.
01:05And yet the police can start investigating in this country
01:07and then find that the sites are hosted overseas and they stop in their tracks.
01:10Is there a danger that you're kind of whistling in the wind in the Lords?
01:14So this is why solicitation is so key in my bill,
01:18because even if creation went through without making it a crime to solicit the image,
01:27then it would mean that we couldn't prosecute people
01:30who would potentially ask for the image to be made in other jurisdictions.