Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

State Response to Online Disinformation and Media and Digital Literacy: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:

I will just comment on what could happen now. Non-consensual intimate image sharing is now a criminal offence. Whether that is a fake or real image, if it depicts somebody, it is a criminal offence. That would mean that the images are illegal content. Under the Digital Services Act, anybody who is suffering a similar experience has an absolute right to ask the platforms to take it down. If they do not get satisfaction from the platforms, they should come to us and our contact centre. We would regard that as a very high priority and would take the matter up with the platforms if the content was not taken down immediately. There is a mechanism now which ought to be able to result in anyone suffering from that to get the content taken down very quickly. We will give people every assistance if they need it.

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