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Crimes in which a person's face is used to create a sexually insulting composite photo or video and spread it along with the person's personal information is increasing rapidly in recent years.
These digital sexual crimes are also referred to as'intelligence rape', and although the number of victims is increasing, finding the perpetrator is not easy, and even if they are caught, the provisions of the law are not adequate.
Today (16th), let’s focus on this issue.
Reporters Son Hyung-an, Shim Young-gu, and Jung Hye-kyung will deliver.
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Two years ago, the pain of Mr. A, a college student in his 20s, began.
I heard from a friend that my social media photos were circulating in the'Intellectual Rape' room on an internet site.
[Mr. A/Intellectual rape victim: It was the first time I was uploaded to the Tumblr site, and I learned that it was uploaded to a place called Tumbex again, and I took the photos that were uploaded to Twitter...
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Under the picture, A's real name, age, and school attended were accurately written along with sexual harassment that would be difficult to cover.
Posts spread in the blink of an eye, and secondary damage soon began.
[Mr. A/Intellectual abuse victim: I suddenly got a call from someone I saw for the first time.
Where do you go to school?
I was scared to get in touch like this.] I took
courage to file a complaint with the police, but the police only heard one statement and closed the case by suspending the prosecution.
This was the reason why it was difficult to receive information about the perpetrator because the Internet site in question was overseas.
[Mr. A/Intellectual rape victim: I will try, but I will probably not be able to catch it.
I started talking like this, and in fact, I think I started without expectation from the beginning.]
'Deepfake' crime victim B, whose face is synthesized and distributed in a naked photo, is also a passive response from the investigative agency, and even blaming the victim. I was shocked by the attitude.
[Mr. B/Intellectual rape victim: Since the headquarters of Tumblr is in the US, we cannot cooperate in Korea.
He blamed me for what happened because he posted this picture on Instagram.]
Of the six cases of sexual abuse that SBS reported with the victim's prior consent, only one case was found.
Because it is not easy to catch the perpetrators, advertisements are even posted on various social media platforms such as Tumblr and Twitter, saying that they will insult your acquaintances.
[Mr. B/Intellectual rape victim: Honestly, I am a little resigned.
There are already so many (damage photos) that even if I delete what I see, it will be somewhere.] The number of
cases of sexual crimes of acquaintances that the government has identified has doubled in one year.
The crime continues, but it is difficult to find the perpetrator.
Besides, if you are lucky to catch the perpetrator, there is another problem.
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A, a 20-year-old worker who learned that photos of his face and someone's naked body were circulated dozens of times on Telegram, the police repeatedly said that it was difficult to catch.
I went directly to the tracking.
I caught it difficult, but surprisingly, I was a high school alumni.
The judgment of the law was disappointing.
On two years probation in June, he was released.
[Lee Soo-yeon/Attorney (Women's Lawyers Association Public Affairs Director): It is not difficult to punish if the perpetrator of the'intellectual rape' is specified only.
The problem is that the level of punishment is too weak compared to the suffering suffered by the victims.]
Machizik analyzed all of the judgments of'Intellectual Abuse' that were sentenced from 2013 to the latest.
There are 28 cases in total for 8 years.
58.6% of cases were caused by acquaintances such as school alumni or ex-lover.
Since there is no provision in the law to punish the insults of acquaintances, cyber defamation or dissemination of pornography with a low legal penalty was applied in most cases.
The prison sentence was only 27.6%, the average penalty was one year and five months in prison, and the rest were probation or fine.
The only reason the sentence was high was when the victim was a minor.
Tracking single flame / 'n beonbang' first complaint: (judges) is not a real body picture really think that you'm not even one such act of this truly serious sexual offenses' cause with this view;
telegrams collective sexual exploitation since the incident The so-called'Deep Fake Prevention Act' was created and has been in force since last June.
However, there is a clear limitation that this law cannot be applied to sexual harassment that has not been synthesized or edited and needs to be supplemented.
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is an overseas SNS platform that received a request for correction by the Korean government for posting illegal pornography last year.
Even now, there are a number of cases of abuse of acquaintances.
SBS reporters attached the URLs of posts distributed through this site and asked if they were aware of the fact that these posts were being neglected at the US headquarters.
The company only responded to SBS's inquiries, saying, "We are working hard to meet industry standards for preventing sexual crime", and then deleted the post of insulting acquaintances in question.
In order for victims to delete illegal posts, they must first be aware that their identity and photos are being disseminated without permission.
After that, you need to find the disseminated photos or composites, track the path of their spread, and ask the platform to delete them each time they are found.
Considering that most of the damages begin on overseas platforms, this is a difficult task for individuals to handle.
[Mr. B/Intellectual rape victim: Even at this moment, I don't know where and how to get around, so I honestly don't seem to be forgotten.
It's very difficult.] After the
Telegram sexual exploitation incident, the victim support center has been strengthened, but there are still only 47 people in charge of deletion.
As a result, many victims often ask private companies to delete them, spending more than 1 million won per month.
[Lee Deok-young/Digital funeral director: I have to look and find one by one, but I don't think I have enough people to do that.
So, I can't help but erase a lot.]
[Seo Seung-hee/CEO of Korea Cyber Sexual Violence Response Center: Online space is a space that is connected according to the operating rules of the platform.
Therefore, the results vary greatly depending on what operating policy the platform operator has and willingness to respond to violence...
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prevention to deletion and punishment, it seems urgent to prepare various support measures to prevent sexual abuse crimes.
(Video coverage: Lee Byeong-ju, video editor: Won-hee Won, VJ: Jeong Han-wook, Kim Cho-a, CG: Hong Seong-yong, Choi Jae-young, Lee Ye-jeong, Seong Jae-eun, Jeong Si-won)