Television personality Georgia Harrison will tell MPs about the horrors of so-called 'revenge porn'. (Image: Getty)
Television personality Georgia Harrison will tell MPs about the horrors of so-called “revenge porn” this week.
The Love Island star is now one of Britain’s highest profile campaigners against the publication of intimate images online without the consent of those involved.
She won national attention for the issue when she waived her right to anonymity during the prosecution of her ex-partner, Stephen Bear.
Intimate CCTV footage of the pair in his garden – recorded without her knowledge – was uploaded to the OnlyFans website.
Bear was found guilty of voyeurism and disclosing private sexual images with the intent to cause distress 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.
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This Wednesday Ms Harrison will give evidence to Westminster’s Women and Equalities committee. MPs will also grill Keily Blair, the chief executive of OnlyFans.
Ms Harrison, who is well-known for appearing on The Only Way is Essex, has said that the unauthorised sharing of intimate images “makes you feel completely worthless” because “people are looking at you and having sexual gratification over you and it’s completely out of your control”.
The MPs will also hear from David Wright, director at the UK Safer Internet Centre.
He wants the law tightened “to ensure any non-consensually shared intimate images are blocked from being viewed online”.
Blaming a “gap in the legal system”, he said 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 full measures of the Online Safety Act come into force this will “require sites to block access to websites hosting illegal non-consensual intimate images if ordered to by a court via Ofcom’s powers,” adding: “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 could face fines of up to ￡18million or 10 per cent of global revenue.
The Government stated last year that one in seven women and one in nine men aged between 18 and 34 have faced “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 OnlyFans said: “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.”
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