B.C. passed into law Thursday protections for people whose intimate images are shared online without their consent. And while it’s a worthwhile step toward empowering victims to get their images removed from the Internet, several hours of debate in the legislature also revealed it will not be simple, or easy, to actually implement the law in the real world.
Attorney General Niki Sharma and Opposition critic Mike de Jong spent several hours walking through the bill over two days this week.
It is supposed to work like this: A person whose images are shared online without permission can apply to B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal (or B.C. Supreme Court) and get an order, which can then be used to legally compel a website or tech company to take the material down. It will also be easier to sue for compensation.
Those intimate images include ones artificially generated…
