Ireland set to make revenge porn and 'upskirting' illegal under new legislation

The government agreed to stop working on its own Bill and instead accept Brendan Howlin’s Bill. Image: Shutterstock/Antonio Guillem The government agreed to stop working on its own Bill and instead accept Brendan Howlin’s Bill. Image: Shutterstock/Antonio Guillem REVENGE PORN IS to be outlawed under amendments to new legislation to be approved by Cabinet today.

The Bill is based on a Law Reform Commission report, which recommends the outlawing of two kinds of incidents: one which forbids the posting online of intimate images without consent, the other which will prevent secretly filming or photographing private areas of a person, also known as ‘upskirting’ and ‘down-blousing’.

Howlin has previously said one of the aspects of modern life is the increase in instances in which private images taken while in an intimate relationship are posted online when a relationship breaks down. The Bill provides for the main criminal law elements of the LRC Report and proposes new offences dealing with:

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