UK Unveils New Cyber Flashing Law

Lawmakers in the United Kingdom have made it a criminal offense to use a cell phone, dating app or social media to send unsolicited sexual images – a practice known as cyber flashing. Under the terms of the United Kingdom’s new Online Safety Bill, individuals convicted of sharing an image or video of a person’s genitals for their own sexual gratification, or to cause another person humiliation, alarm or distress, could spend up to two years in prison.

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