Proposal makes a crime of rape obliging someone to have sex threatening to disseminate intimate content
The CCJ (Constitution and Justice and Citizenship Commission) of the House of Representatives approved the bill that establishes penalties for those who threaten to disclose intimate images, or produces registration, including the use of artificial intelligence, to include people in nudity scenes or sexual acts.
The approved text is the substitute of the rapporteur in the committee, deputy (Union-AL), to Bill 9043 of 17, former Deputy Felipe Bornier (Solidarity-RJ), and other projects that are being processed tapped. The text still depends on voting in the plenary.
According to the proposal, it becomes incurred in the same penalties as the crime of extortion (imprisonment From 4 to 10 years and fine), those who try to get advantage threatening to disclose content of the victim containing intimate parts, or scene of nudity, sexual or libidinous act.
Also according to the proposal, embarrass someone to have sex from the threat of disseminating intimate content now configures rape crime, with a penalty of imprisonment, from 6 to 10 years.
The approved text also increases the penalty for those who produce, photograph, film or record content with nudity scene or sexual or libidinous act of an intimate and private character without permission of the participants. Today, the penalty is detentionfrom 6 months to 1 year, and fine, and becomes imprisonment, from 1 to 2 years and fine.
The substitute also includes in this penalty who:
- Performs assembly on photography, video, audio or any other record, including using artificial intelligence or any other technological resource in order to include a person in the scene of nudity or sexual or libidinous act of intimate character;
- produces, photograph, films or records, by any means and unauthorized, intimate parts of the victim’s body or
- embarrass the agent to record intimate images without consent.
During the discussion of the proposal, the deputy (PL-RJ) highlighted the growth of virtual crimes and the need to combat them. “The proposal comes at a good time, when we observe a diversity of crimes on the Internet. These are people who are kept in anonymity to embarrass victims, who are often children and adolescents. These are practices that are spreading in the virtual world,” these.
The deputy (PT-RS) highlighted the innovation of the bill. “With this dimension that the rapporteur is adopting, this could be one of the first legislations of this context of artificial intelligence”he said.
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