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Television character Georgia Harrison will inform MPs concerning the horrors of so-called “revenge porn” this week.

The Love Island star is now one in all Britain’s highest profile campaigners towards the publication of intimate photographs on-line with out the consent of these concerned.

She gained nationwide consideration for the problem when she waived her proper to anonymity in the course of the prosecution of her ex-partner, Stephen Bear.

Intimate CCTV footage of the pair in his backyard – recorded with out her data – was uploaded to the OnlyFollowers web site.

Bear was discovered responsible of voyeurism and disclosing personal sexual photographs with the intent to trigger misery in 2022. He was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment – of which he served 10 and a half months – and this March he was hit with a £22,305 confiscation order.

This Wednesday Ms Harrison will give proof to Westminster’s Women and Equalities committee. MPs will even grill Keily Blair, the chief government of OnlyFollowers.

Ms Harrison, who’s well-known for showing on The Only Way is Essex, has stated that the unauthorised sharing of intimate photographs “makes you feel completely worthless” as a result of “people are looking at you and having sexual gratification over you and it’s completely out of your control”.

The MPs will even hear from David Wright, director on the UK Safer Internet Centre.

He desires the legislation tightened “to ensure any non-consensually shared intimate images are blocked from being viewed online”.
Blaming  a “gap in the legal system”, he stated that “at the UK’s Revenge Porn helpline alone, there are currently 30,000 URLs containing non-consensually shared intimate content that we are unable to remove”.

But a Government spokesperson that when the total measures of the Online Safety Act come into drive this can “require sites to block access to websites hosting illegal non-consensual intimate images if ordered to by a court via Ofcom’s powers,” including: “We are also cracking down on abusers who share intimate images of someone without their consent, by giving police and prosecutors the powers they need to bring these cowards to justice.”

Companies may face fines of as much as £18million or 10 per cent of worldwide income.

The Government acknowledged final yr that one in seven girls and one in 9 males aged between 18 and 34 have confronted “threats to share intimate images”, with police recording “more than 28,000 reports of disclosing private sexual images without consent” between April 2015 and December 2021.

A spokesperson for OnlyFollowers stated: “We’re pleased to have been invited to the committee to share our groundbreaking work and expertise in online safety. We look forward to discussing the steps that all social media companies can, and should, take to better protect people from the sharing of non-consensual intimate images.”