Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Pennsylvania State Senate will consider a bill that aims to expand protections against image-based sexual abuse, including real and AI-generated images, which supporters say would close a loophole.The bill, which passed the state House on Wednesday, would also expand the definition of intent to include knowing or reckless distribution of such images. The bill proposes a tiered system of penalties based on the level of harm and intent. Current law applies only when the person who non-consensually shares images is a current or former intimate partner of the victim and acts with the intent to harass or annoy.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tHARRISBURG, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania State Senate will consider a bill that aims to expand protections against image-based sexual abuse, including real and AI-generated images, which supporters say would close a loophole.<\/p>\n
The bill, which passed the state House on Wednesday, would also expand the definition of intent to include knowing or reckless distribution of such images. <\/p>\n
The bill proposes a tiered system of penalties based on the level of harm and intent. <\/p>\n
Current law applies only when the person who non-consensually shares images is a current or former intimate partner of the victim and acts with the intent to harass or annoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COUNTY TO PURSUE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. THE STATE SENATE WILL CONSIDER A BILL THAT WOULD EXPAND PROTECTIONS AGAINST IMAGE…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25811,94706,94707,94713,33410,94702,94712,94705,94710,94714,94704,28,33406,30,29,94711,94708,94703,11986,40139,94715,94709],"class_list":["post-216587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-ai-generated-images","tag-current-law","tag-expanded-protections","tag-harass-or-annoy","tag-house-bill","tag-image-based-sexual-abuse","tag-intent-definition","tag-intimate-partner","tag-knowing-distribution","tag-loophole","tag-non-consensual-images","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-bill","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-reckless-distribution","tag-senate-consideration","tag-sexual-abuse-bill","tag-state-house","tag-state-senate","tag-supporters","tag-tiered-penalties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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