Victims of image-based sexual violence will get help to have their photos removed from the internet under a new scheme to be announced today. Under the new scheme, victims will be encouraged to report the sharing of illegal content online to Hotline.ie/report, and will receive help from the organisation to get the images or video removed from the internet. Coco’s Law, otherwise known as the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act, was enacted in February and created new offences criminalising the non-consensual distribution of intimate images. Minister of State Hildegarde Naughton, who will launch the scheme this morning, said that the sharing of images was abuse, regardless of motivation. Sharing or threatening to share intimate images is a form of abuse, and there are no excuses for it.

Source: Irish Examiner September 02, 2021 05:48 UTC