Second Reading Speeches

Enhancing Online Safety (Non-consensual Sharing of Intimate Images) Bill 2018

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  • Enhancing Online Safety (Non-consensual Sharing of Intimate Images) Bill 2017
Type
Government
Portfolio
Communications and the Arts
Originating house
Senate
Status
Act
Parliament no
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Summary

Amends the:

Enhancing Online Safety Act 2015
to: prohibit the posting of, or threatening to post, an intimate image without consent on a social media service, relevant electronic service or a designated internet service; establish a complaints and objections system to be administered by the eSafety Commissioner; provide the commissioner with powers to issue removal notices or remedial directions; establish a civil penalty regime to be administered by the commissioner; and enable the commissioner to seek a civil penalty order from a relevant court, issue an infringement notice, obtain an injunction or enforce an undertaking, or issue a formal warning for contraventions of the civil penalty provisions; and
Broadcasting Services Act 1992
to make a consequential amendment.

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