{"id":8921,"date":"2026-11-13T22:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T22:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8921"},"modified":"2026-11-13T22:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T22:47:21","slug":"sharing-non-consensual-deepfake-porn-in-canada-is-now-a-crime-the-law-still-fails-the-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8921","title":{"rendered":"Sharing non\u2011consensual \u2018deepfake\u2019 porn in Canada is now a crime. The law still fails the victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Conversation has a nice article on how <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sharing-non-consensual-deepfake-porn-in-canada-is-now-a-crime-the-law-still-fails-the-victims-291112\">Sharing non\u2011consensual \u2018deepfake\u2019 porn in Canada is now a crime. The law still fails the victims<\/a>. We have the new Protecting Victims Act (Bill C-16), but is that enough to protect women from AI-generated deepfakes? One problem is how deepfake images can be manipulated to not be realistic (by adding elf ears) and thus not <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I learned about this from Blair Attard-Frost who presented on regulating and governing AI and gender-based harms at the Transparency for Whom? Workshop. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conversation has a nice article on how Sharing non\u2011consensual \u2018deepfake\u2019 porn in Canada is now a crime. The law still fails the victims. We have the new Protecting Victims Act (Bill C-16), but is that enough to protect women from AI-generated deepfakes? One problem is how deepfake images can be manipulated to not be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8921\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sharing non\u2011consensual \u2018deepfake\u2019 porn in Canada is now a crime. The law still fails the victims<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,58,11,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-ethics-of-data-science","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}