It is a sentence that will dissuade certain cybercriminals. An Australian is caught in justice after having generated and published false pornographic images of Australian female personalities. To do this, Deepfake will have used, a facial technology that allows you to generate content, such as more or less realistic videos, of a simple photo.
According to The Guardian, the man could receive a colossal fine of 450,000 Australian dollars (the equivalent of 255,000 euros). The Australian authority required this sum for online security regulation.
A prayer that serves as an example
However, the Australian had been requested to erase his videos, in vain, since the man refused. While returning from the Philippines, Australia’s regulatory authority immediately initiated the prosecution. Then he admitted to the court that maintained his images on the Mrdeepfakes site.
For having violated the online security law, Australian regulations against harmful online behavior are probable that man. In The Guardian, a spokesman for the Australian authority hopes that “this prayer will deter others from participating in this type of harmful behavior.”
Deepfake is now used mainly illegally. Generation of deceptions or even scams of all kinds, this technology is the origin of many scams and can seriously affect the mental health of its victims.
The use of Deepfake has also exploded in recent years. For example, in Belgium, there are 29 times more cases of fraud using technology between 2022 and 2023 according to statista.
Therefore, several governments have created laws to limit the harmful repercussions of the deep. In France, the Law on Digital Space Security approved in 2024 provides sentences of up to 3 years in prison and 75,000 if an online sexual defake is published. In an IFOP survey of the same year, 57% of the French said they were worried about a day of Deepfake victims.
Source: BFM TV
