Broadcaster and campaigner Narinder Kaur has candidly explained how Sir Keir Starmer is helping tackle the issue of deepfakes, but she says one thing needs to happen to eradicate the issue
This week, Sir Keir Starmer has said tech companies must remove revenge porn and deepfake sexual images within 48 hours or risk being blocked in Britain altogether. He’s right to call it a national emergency and it has exposed a deeper, uglier truth: the online world is fundamentally unsafe, particularly for women and girls.
We are living in a disturbing era of digital sexual abuse, whether it’s deepfake pornography, AI-generated nude images, hacked photos or manipulated videos created by complete strangers. This goes far beyond so-called “revenge porn”. These are acts of violation that leave lasting digital and emotional scars.
We’ve already seen how widespread this abuse has become. Grok, the AI chatbot on Elon Musk’s platform X, was used to generate non-consensual sexualised images of women at scale. With just a few typed prompts, women were digitally stripped and humiliated. It has never been easier to violate someone’s dignity.
I know this because it has happened to me.
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For years, deepfake images and videos have been created of me without my consent. I have been digitally unclothed, deported in a Union Jack bikini, depicted giving oral sex, videos of me being molested by Donald Trump and a paparazzi image of me in a dress was altered to be more revealing and placed next to Jeffrey Epstein
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Just today, another image surfaced showing me dead and pushed in a wheelbarrow by Rupert Lowe, which I found out was posted by an anonymous, “Patriot” account which I found out was based in Japan. [attached] And that raises the most important question of all: how are perpetrators actually going to be held accountable?
When accounts operate anonymously, overseas and beyond easy reach, how do victims get justice? How do you secure a charge, let alone a conviction? In most cases, you don’t. The accounts disappear and the damage remains.
While I am in the public eye, the majority of victims are not. This is happening to teenage girls, to young women, to older women who may not even understand the technology being used against them. How are they supposed to fight anonymous perpetrators across borders? How are they being protected? How are they being supported?
Legally, I learned just how powerless victims can be. Law enforcement often cannot identify those responsible and as a result, cases hit a dead end and nobody gets charged. The system was simply not designed for abuse on this scale.
Emotionally, the impact is profound. Seeing your own face used without your consent in a sexual or degrading context creates a permanent sense of vulnerability. It strips away your safety and your control.
What makes it worse is the culture surrounding it. People try to legitimise this abuse. They say women somehow “deserve” it for being outspoken, or if you post photos of yourself on holiday in a bikini, or if you’re even visible on social media at all, you suddenly become fair game.
This abuse is part of a wider culture that has long treated women’s bodies as public property. For decades, we’ve seen female celebrities have their accounts hacked, private photos and videos stolen and their bodies photographed without consent. AI has now made the problem worse. You don’t need access to private images anymore, anyone can create convincing fake pornography of anybody.
What has also been shocking is the number of people who dismiss digital abuse entirely, saying it’s “not a real crime” or that reporting it is somehow wasting police time.
That response reveals exactly why stronger laws are needed. This is a crime. It is a violation of a person’s dignity, safety and autonomy. The fact that technology is used as the weapon does not make the harm any less real. We would never tell victims of other forms of abuse that their suffering doesn’t matter or that it isn’t serious enough to warrant investigation. It is not for the public to decide which crimes deserve protection and which victims deserve justice. The law must protect people equally and digital sexual abuse must be treated with the seriousness it demands.
Equally, tech companies cannot continue to hide behind neutrality, while profiting from the abusive content. They make billions while victims are left to deal with the consequences.
What Keir Starmer is proposing is an important first step. It finally shifts responsibility onto the platforms enabling this abuse, forcing them to act quickly or face real consequences. I have always said the platforms should share responsibility, but removal alone is not enough. There must also be accountability. Without consequences for perpetrators, this abuse will continue.
Digital sexual abuse is not harmless. It is not trivial. These images may be virtual, but the damage they cause is painfully real and until both platforms and perpetrators are held fully accountable, women and girls will continue to pay the price.
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